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Newswise — BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Can you have a stroke and not know it? Unfortunately, yes. It is a phenomenon called a silent stroke or, more formally, a silent cerebral infarction. Investigators at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Stanford University want to learn more about silent strokes and their role in brain health, including dementia.
“A silent stroke has no symptoms, and so a person is not even aware they have had a stroke at all,” said Ronald Lazar, Ph.D., Evelyn F. McKnight Endowed Chair in Learning and Memory in Aging and professor in the Department of Neurology at UAB and director of the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute in the School of Medicine. “However, silent strokes do cause damage to the brain, and…
