Signs & Symptoms
(Tsementiz, 2000)
- Mental Status Impairment
- Confusion
- Amnesia
- Perseveration
- Personality change: flat affect, apathy
- Cognitive change: short attention span, slowness
- Deterioration of intellectual function
- Urinary incontinence
- Contralateral hemiparesis or hemiplegia
- The lower extremities are more affected than the face and upper extremities due to damage of the anterior putamen and frontopontine axons in the internal capsule.
- Contralateral Sensory loss
- Loss of sensation in the lower limbs more than the upper limbs.
- Foot and Leg deficits
- More frequent than arm deficits
- Contralateral Foot drop
- Left sided ideomotor apraxia or tactile anomia
- Expressive Aphasia (if left hemisphere)
- Deviation of the eyes and head toward the affected side
- Severe behavior disturbances
- Abulia: Inability to make decisions or voluntary acts
(Tsementiz, 2000)