Ischemic and Intracerebral Hemorrhagic Stroke

Abstract

This chapter is organized along the neurobehavioral features of the major stroke syndromes in relation to the major vascular territories. We describe the major neurobehavioral deficits of each syndrome and associate them with specific distributions and pathological mechanisms of ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes. This chapter will consider intracerebral hemorrhages, but syndromes related to subarachnoid hemorrhage, aneurysms, and arteriovenous malformations will be discussed in Chaps. 4 and 5. It will be apparent that often specific cognitive disturbances are not restricted to injury to one particular vascular territory. For convenience, we will discuss various cognitive disturbances in relation to the vascular territories most commonly associated with these deficits.