Blood supply to brain / stroke impairments

Question 1

impairments seen with ACA damage?

Answer 1

• Contralateral LE sensory/motor impairment
• loss of bowel and bladder control
• loss of behavioral inhibition
• significant mental changes
• Neglect, aphasia, apraxia, agraphia

Question 2

impairments seen with MCA damage?

Answer 2

• Contralateral UE sensory/motor impairment
• Wernickles Aphasia, homonymous hemianopsia
• apraxia.
• flat affect with R hemisphere damage
• impaired spatial relations
• anosognosia (neurological condition in which the patient is unaware of their neurological deficit) in don-dominant hemisphere

Question 3

impairments seen with PCA damage?

Answer 3

• contralateral pain and temperature sensory loss
• contralateral hemiplegia
• Ataxia, athetosis, or choreiform movement
• thalamic pain syndrome
• prosopagnosia (a neurological condition characterized by the inability to recognize the faces of familiar people) with occipital deficit
• alexia, dyslexia
• Hemiballismus, is a hyperkinetic involuntary movement disorder characterized by intermittent, sudden, violent, involuntary, flinging, or ballistic high amplitude movements involving the ipsilateral arm and leg caused dysfunction in the central nervous system of the contralatera