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transient cerebral isolation
Sign in to saveAlso known as TIA, transient ischemic attack, transient cerebral ischaemia, transient cerebral ischaemia NOS, transient cerebral ischemia, transient ischemic attacks, ischemic attack, transient, mini-stroke
neurological dysfunction by transient ischemia
Key facts
- Other names
- Mini-stroke, mild stroke
- Specialty
- Neurology , Vascular surgery
- Prognosis
- Survival rate 91% (to hospital discharge) , 67.2% (five years)
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
3,849 papers- Reversing a model of Parkinson's disease with in situ converted nigral neurons.Nature · 2020
- Transient global amnesia.Tidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke · 2025
- Monitoring of activity-driven trafficking of endogenous synaptic proteins through proximity labeling.PLoS biology · 2024
- Distinctive Neurophysiological Signatures of Analgesia after Inflammatory Pain in the ACC of Freely Moving Mice.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
- Contralesional hippocampal spreading depolarization promotes functional recovery after stroke.Nature communications · 2025
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Encyclopedic overview
A transient ischemic attack (TIA), commonly known as mini-stroke, is a temporary, or transient, stroke with noticeable symptoms that end within 24 hours. A TIA causes the same symptoms of stroke, such as weakness or numbness on one side of the body, sudden dimming or loss of vision, difficulty speaking or understanding language, and slurred speech.
All forms of stroke, including a TIA, result from a disruption in blood flow to the central nervous system. A TIA is caused by a temporary disruption in blood flow to the brain, or cerebral blood flow (CBF). The primary difference between a major stroke and a TIA's minor stroke is how much tissue death (infarction) can be detected afterwards through medical imaging. While a TIA must by definition be associated with symptoms, strokes can also be asymptomatic or silent. In a silent stroke, also known as a silent cerebral infarct (SCI), there is permanent infarction detectable on imaging, but there are no immediately observable symptoms. The same person can have major strokes, minor strokes, and silent strokes, in any order.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “transient cerebral isolation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.