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Vascular Cognitive and Behavioral Disorders

Introduction Ischemic infarcts in the brain can manifest with a variety of cognitive and behavioral disorders. For many years, use of autopsy and clinical–pathological correlation in stroke patients formed the basis for the anatomic localization of various cognitive functions. In…

Posterior Circulation: Large Artery Occlusive Disease and Embolism

Introduction In many respects, strokes involving the posterior circulation parallel those of the anterior circulation. Ischemic infarcts may be due to atherothrombosis of large arteries, lacunes from occlusion of small penetrating arteries, or embolism from either the heart or proximal…