At UCLA Medical Center, a CT scan and MRI confirmed his worst fears - he had suffered a thalamic or lacunar stroke, which occurs in the thalamus, a deep area of the brain. The progression of the ...

2009 Expert Reviews Ltd. Cite this: Neuroimaging of Ischemic Stroke With CT and MRI: Advancing Towards Physiology ... and also supplies portions of the thalamus through its perforators.

Years ago, as a neurology resident, Chinfei Chen, MD, PhD, cared for a 20-year-old woman who had experienced a very small stroke, affecting only the thalamus.

increasing exposure to recurrent head trauma measured in several different ways was associated with lower MRI-based volumes of various cortical and subcortical brain structures, particularly the ...