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I heard mini strokes can lead to a massive stroke but do they cause mental impairment or mental illness?
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Clarification: Let's call your "mini strokes", small lacunar infarcts, and thus, these would imply small subclincal injury. Multiple such events can result in dementia. True mental illness as treated by psychiatry is not due to stroke.
Answered 12/24/2013
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