Each stroke is different. How well you recover from a stroke depends upon many factors including how much and what parts of your brain were damaged and your health before the stroke. The work you do with your stroke rehabilitation team and the support from family and friends are also important to your recovery.
A stroke damages the brain and causes a sudden loss of brain function. Because your brain controls everything you say, do and think, a stroke can have a wide variety of effects.
The cerebrum
The cerebrum is responsible for controlling movement and sensation, speech, thinking, reasoning, memory, sexual function, and regulation of emotions. It is divided into the right and left sides or hemispheres.
Effects of left hemisphere strokes
Effects of right hemisphere strokes
Brain stem strokes
This is an uncommon type of stroke. The brain stem is the area at the very base of the brain, right above the spinal cord. If you have a stroke in the brain stem, you can have problems with:
Strokes in the cerebellum
Although strokes are less common in the cerebellum, the effects can be severe. Four common effects of strokes in the cerebellum include:
Will a stroke change my life?
Any major illness will change your life. Almost all stroke survivors recover to some extent. Most stroke survivors go on to lead full, meaningful lives. Your stroke rehabilitation team, family, friends and relatives can help you make the best possible recovery. Read our stroke Survivor stories.
Having a stroke.
saturated fat affects your brian is if you had a stroke
It depends what side of the brain the blood clot occurs on.
If the stroke occurs in the left side of the brain, the right side of the body will be affected, producing some or all of the following: paralysis on the right side of the body; speech/language problems; slow, cautious behavioral style; memory loss. A stroke on the right side of the brain affects the left side of the body.
The lobes in the back of the brain called the occipital lobes.
sodium can clog up in your arteries and can lead to a stroke later on in life.
It affects the nervous system. It affects both those systems along with many others. It effects the endocrine system, because the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland, both secreting organs in the endocrine system, are located in the brain. If a stroke were to occur in those regions, the hypothalamus or the pituitary gland would not be able to secrete the hormones needed to keep homeostasis. The brain also controls the nervous system. So, a stroke does affect both.
No, in a stroke, the symptoms often don't include any discomfort or pain and is more likely associated with losing feeling or the ability to move. Much of the time, a stroke only affects one side of the body.
yes. at least that's what i was told. You can have a stroke due to smoking. If you smoke it affects your lungs. And then you have stroke. DON'T SMOKE!!!!!!!
A stroke affects different parts of the brain - it varies from person to person. Some sufferers have their memory affected, some have speech problems and some have restricted movement. Some even suffer more than one 'problem'.
Higher blood pressure, increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
My grandpa had a stroke and he almost lost his ability to talk and half his body was paralyzed. My idea is that when a stroke happens it clogs a main artery to the brain thus causing your body to cease up. After the stroke you get some major damage to your body and it affects the side of the brain that is with your motar skills and such and it makes it hard to speak. It's something to do with the brain but if someone has a better answer then they could post here.