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A

  • Acalculia
  • Agnosia
  • Ageusia
  • Agraphia
  • Akathisia
  • Alexia
  • Alien Hand Syndrome
  • Amblyopia-like vision loss
  • Amnesia
  • Anhedonia
  • Anomic aphasia
  • Anosmia
  • Anosognosia
  • Anxiety
  • Apraxia
  • Aphasia
  • Apraxia of speech
  • Apathy
  • Ataxia
  • Attention deficit
  • Auditory processing disorder
  • Autonomic dysfunction

C

  • Capgras syndrome
  • Catastrophic reaction
  • Central pain syndrome
  • Cerebellar tremor
  • Chronic fatigue
  • Chronic headaches
  • Cognitive impairment
  • Communication difficulties
  • Confabulation
  • Confusion
  • Coordination loss
  • Cortical blindness
  • Crying spells (emotional lability)

E

  • Echolalia
  • Emotional blunting
  • Emotional dysregulation
  • Emotional lability
  • Executive dysfunction
  • Eye movement disorders

What Stroke Sometimes
Leaves Behind

A comprehensive A–Z guide to understanding post-stroke effects. Grouped alphabetically for easy navigation and care planning.

B

  • Balance problems
  • Behavioral disinhibition
  • Behavioral changes
  • Bladder dysfunction
  • Body awareness deficits
  • Brain fog
  • Bradyphrenia (mental slowing)
  • Bulbar weakness

D

  • Decision-making impairment
  • Delayed processing speed
  • Delirium
  • Delusions
  • Depression
  • Derealization
  • Disinhibition
  • Dizziness
  • Double vision (diplopia)
  • Drowsiness
  • Dysarthria
  • Dyscalculia
  • Dysgraphia
  • Dysphagia
  • Dysexecutive syndrome

F

  • Facial droop
  • Facial paralysis
  • Fatigue (post-stroke fatigue)
  • Fine motor impairment
  • Foot drop
  • Frustration intolerance

G

  • Gait disturbance
  • Global aphasia
  • Goal neglect
  • Gerstmann syndrome

I

  • Ideational apraxia
  • Ideomotor apraxia
  • Impulsivity
  • Inattention
  • Incontinence
  • Insomnia
  • Intention tremor
  • Irritability

K

  • Kinesthetic impairment

H

  • Hallucinations
  • Headaches
  • Hearing loss
  • Hemianopia
  • Hemiballismus
  • Hemiataxia
  • Hemiparesis
  • Hemiplegia
  • Hemispatial neglect
  • Hyperalgesia
  • Hypertonia
  • Hypersomnia
  • Hypotonia

J

  • Judgment impairment

L

  • Language processing deficits
  • Learned non-use
  • Left-right confusion
  • Lethargy
  • Limb ataxia
  • Limb weakness
  • Loss of proprioception
  • Loss of taste
  • Loss of smell

M

  • Memory loss
  • Mental fatigue
  • Mental slowing
  • Migraine-like headaches
  • Mood swings
  • Motor planning deficits
  • Motor weakness
  • Muscle atrophy
  • Muscle spasticity
  • Muscle stiffness
  • Myoclonus

N

  • Neglect syndrome
  • Neuropathic pain
  • Noise sensitivity
  • Numbness

O

  • Obsessive behaviors
  • Ocular motor dysfunction
  • Orthostatic hypotension
  • Overstimulation intolerance

P

  • Pain syndromes
  • Paralysis
  • Perceptual deficits
  • Personality changes
  • Photophobia
  • Post-stroke dementia
  • Post-stroke epilepsy
  • Post-stroke fatigue
  • Post-stroke anxiety
  • Post-stroke apathy
  • Post-stroke psychosis
  • Processing speed deficits
  • Proprioceptive loss
  • Prosopagnosia
  • Pseudobulbar affect

Q

  • Quadrantanopia
  • Quadriparesis
  • Quadriplegia

S

  • Seizures
  • Sensory deficits
  • Sensory loss
  • Sensory overload
  • Sleep disturbances
  • Slow speech
  • Social cognition deficits
  • Sound sensitivity
  • Spatial disorientation
  • Spasticity
  • Speech apraxia
  • Speech fluency issues
  • Stroke-induced tinnitus
  • Swallowing impairment

U

  • Unilateral weakness
  • Urinary urgency
  • Urinary retention

W

  • Walking difficulties
  • Weak grip strength
  • Word-finding difficulty
  • Writing impairment

Y

  • Yawning dysregulation

R

  • Reading impairment
  • Reduced attention span
  • Reduced initiative
  • Restless limb sensations
  • Right-left confusion

T

  • Tactile extinction
  • Temperature dysregulation
  • Thermal sensory loss
  • Tremor
  • Trouble concentrating
  • Trouble multitasking

V

  • Vertigo
  • Visual agnosia
  • Visual field loss
  • Visual neglect
  • Visual processing deficits
  • Visual hallucinations
  • Voice weakness

X

  • Xerostomia (dry mouth)

Z

  • Zoning out episodes
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