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If the stroke affects the parts of your brain involved in vision, that can lead to problems noticing things in parts of your visual field, or figuring out exactly what you are looking at.
Performance on this scale is associated with integrity of white matter, periventricular myelination, and cortical microinfarcts. Assessments of cortical microinfarcts have had the highest rates with being associated with cognitive degeneration. [7] This lower cognition specifically affects perceptual speed and memory (semantic and episodic).
Since stroke is an essential part of vascular dementia, [13] the goal is to prevent new strokes. This is attempted through reduction of stroke risk factors, such as high blood pressure, high blood lipid levels, atrial fibrillation, or diabetes mellitus. [2] [5] Medications for high blood pressure are used to prevent pre-stroke dementia. [19]
A person can show one or more of these symptoms during a stroke. If person has a decrease in consciousness, they may be suffering from a stroke in more than one part of the brain or in the brain stem. [12] Symptoms of cerebral infarction can help determine which parts of the brain are affected.
A new study examines how age-related brain changes could be linked to stroke recovery. Researchers suggest areas of age-related damage to parts of the brain containing white matter may influence ...
The broad term, "stroke" can be divided into three categories: brain ischemia, subarachnoid hemorrhage and intracerebral hemorrhage. Brain ischemia can be further subdivided, by cause, into thrombotic, embolic, and hypoperfusion. [3] Thrombotic and embolic are generally focal or multifocal in nature while hypoperfusion affects the brain globally.
Additionally, with stroke being the cause of many cases of aphasia the extent of damage to brain tissue can be difficult to quantify therefore the effects of stroke brain damage on the functionality of the patient can vary. Neural substrates of aphasia subtypes. MRI is often used to predict or confirm the subtype of aphasia present.
The most common presentation of cerebrovascular disease is an ischemic stroke or mini-stroke and sometimes a hemorrhagic stroke. [2] Hypertension (high blood pressure) is the most important contributing risk factor for stroke and cerebrovascular diseases as it can change the structure of blood vessels and result in atherosclerosis . [ 5 ]