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Need a better strategy to find strategic infarcts?
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Strategic infarcts are infarcts located in structures directly related to cognition.
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Damage to these structures results in dementia without any other significant volume loss.
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These infarcts are like a ninja.ย Just one shot right to the heart to take it down.ย
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Just one infarct in one of these important structures can cause dementia like a shot to the heart.ย
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So which structures are these?
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Well, there are many structures that have been implicated in strategic infarct dementia.
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But the main ones are hippocampus, internal capsule (ant & genu), thalamus (paramedian) & caudate.
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I remember this w/the mnemonic:
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One HIT CAUses dementia
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H = Hippocampus
I = Internal Capsule
T = Thalamus
CAUD = Caudate
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Now you can be a ninja looking for these ninja infarcts!