Mini-Stroke More Likely to Affect Memory Than Verbal Skills To find out if TIA is a risk factor for cognitive decline, researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham used data from more ...

Mini-Stroke More Likely to Affect Memory Than Verbal Skills To find out if TIA is a risk factor for cognitive decline, researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham used data from more ...

They were followed for a year. Participants completed questionnaires about their level of fatigue within the first two weeks of the mini-stroke and again at three, six, and 12 months later.

Participants also had brain scans. Researchers found that the presence of a blot clot on a scan was equal between people with long term fatigue and those without it, so this did not explain the ...

Around 240,000 people a year experience a mini stroke, and one-third later sustain a full stroke. Mini strokes are events during which a brain region is temporarily deprived of oxygen, most often for ...

In that study, some 420 people from Edinburgh and Hong Kong with an average age of 66 who had a mild stroke or a transient ischemic attack, also known as a "mini stroke," underwent brain scans ...

The main difference between a mini stroke, or transient ischemic attack (also called TIA), and a stroke is whether your brain was actually, in fact, damaged or not.

The lingering shadow of mini-strokes When someone experiences a mini-stroke, blood flow to the brain is temporarily blocked. Traditional symptoms include face drooping, arm weakness and slurred ...