Quick Stroke Facts
The current acronym for identifying a stroke is?
What is FAST
Arteries that supply the front of the brain?
What are the internal carotid arteries
Receives and processes sensory information, so you can know what someone is writing on your skin (graphesthesia)?
What is the parietal lobe?
Other than 3 and 6, this nerve number controls movement of a person’s eyes?
This provides the main motor and sensory innervation to the face and neck via the cranial nerves.
A. What is the brain stem.
The most common artery that is involved in a stroke?
What is the MCA
Arteries that supply the back of the brain?
What are the vertebral arteries
Where processing of the things you see occurs?
What is the occipital lobe?
If you have a friend or a loved one that has the nerve to have a stroke, to have a chance to use a Clot-busting tPa to help dissolve these blood clots, how long do they have after first symptoms of a stroke ?
What is 4 hours.
This cortex receives input from the body originate from?
What is the sensory cortex
A stroke caused by a clot?
What is an ischemic stroke
A stroke in this distribution can result in personality changes and impair logical thinking (similar to Keegan)?
What is the ACA?
Important for long term memory and understanding what other people are saying?
What is the temporal lobe?
Lower blood pressure, Lose weight, Exercise more, If you drink — do it in moderation, Treat atrial fibrillation, Treat diabetes, and quit smoking. These healthy ways are to help reduce risk of what.
What is a stroke ?
This cortex controls the motor movements?
What is the motor cortex
A stroke caused by a bleed?
What is a hemorrhagic stroke
A stroke in this distribution can result in speech deficits, facial droop, and arm greater than leg weakness?
What is the MCA
Primary center for personality and judgment/higher level cognitive function?
What is the frontal lobe?
Challenging yourself with using your affected side during novel activities is this concept
What is neuroplasticity.
If a person sticks out their tongue, gives you a thumbs up, and wiggles their toe; this part of the cortex controls this?
What is the motor cortex
Why patients experience the symptoms they do after a stroke?
What is location, location, location?
A stroke in this distribution can result in visual deficits, including hemianopsia?
What is the PCA
Important for coordination of movement and proper timing?
What is the cerebellum?
what is Frontal lobe or temporal lobe
Language processing stems from which area since Pierre Paul Broca reported it in different patients?
What is the broca’s area.