• Perspective and Pathogenesis
• 41 min
  1. Cerebrovascular disease: introduction and perspective

  • Prof. Vladimir Hachinski
• 23 min
  2. Expanding frontiers of cerebrovascular disease

  • Prof. Vladimir Hachinski
• 32 min
  3. Basic anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology of the cerebral circulation for the physician

  • Prof. Jean-Claude Baron
• 20 min
  4. Intracerebral hemorrhages: causes and clinical findings

  • Prof. Louis Caplan
• 40 min
  5. Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH)

  • Prof. R. Loch Macdonald
• Diagnosis
• 32 min
  6. Clinical diagnosis of stroke and subtypes

  • Prof. Louis Caplan
• Treatment
• 35 min
  7. Acute therapy of stroke and reperfusion treatments

  • Prof. Brian Silver
• 39 min
  8. Subarachnoid hemorrhage diagnosis and management

  • Prof. Gary K. Steinberg
• 26 min
  9. Stroke-induced heart injury

  • Dr. Luciano A. Sposato
• Rehabilitation
• 37 min
  10. Stroke rehabilitation: principles of stroke

  • Prof. Robert Teasell
• 27 min
  11. Stroke rehabilitation: therapies and treatments

  • Prof. Robert Teasell
• Prevention
• 23 min
  12. Lifestyle and nutrition in stroke prevention

  • Prof. J. David Spence
• 40 min
  13. Prevention: carotid endarterectomy, angioplasty, and stenting

  • Prof. Brian Hoh
• Special Topics
• 54 min
  14. Pediatric stroke: cerebrovascular injury in the developing brain

  • Prof. Adam Kirton
• 43 min
  15. Stroke in women: epidemiology, risk and prevention

  • Prof. Cheryl Bushnell
• 25 min
  16. Transient ischemic attack and cognition

  • Dr. Jennifer Mandzia
• 31 min
  17. Vascular cognitive impairment

  • Prof. Eric E. Smith
• 34 min
  18. Atrial fibrillation, anticoagulation and vitamins for homocysteine

  • Prof. J. David Spence
• 23 min
  19. Convergence and joint prevention of stroke and dementia

  • Prof. Vladimir Hachinski
• 16 min
  20. Stroke in the young

  • Dr. Gyan Kumar
• Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
• 55 min
  21. Vascular cognitive impairment

  • Dr. John Bowler
• 32 min
  22. Pediatric stroke

  • Dr. Gabrielle deVeber
• 36 min
  23. The deteriorating stroke

  • Prof. Werner Hacke
• 27 min
  24. General management

  • Prof. Bo Norrving
• 35 min
  25. The treatment of stroke: specific management - thrombolysis plus

  • Prof. Nils Wahlgren
• 42 min
  26. Rehabilitation: the chronic phase

  • Prof. Lalit Kalra
• 61 min
  27. Prevention: management of risk and protective factors

  • Prof. Graeme Hankey
• 30 min
  28. Medical therapy for secondary prevention of ischemic stroke

  • Prof. Larry Goldstein
• 34 min
  29. Subarachnoid haemorrhage

  • Prof. Jan van Gijn
• 35 min
  30. Controversies in stroke

  • Prof. Stephen Davies
  • Prof. Geoffrey Donnan
• 35 min
  31. Medical and surgical stroke

  • Prof. Carlos Kase
• 35 min
  32. The urgency of stroke prevention after TIA

  • Prof. S. Claiborne Johnston
• 54 min
  33. Carotid endarterectomy, angioplasty and stenting

  • Prof. Martin Brown
• 42 min
  34. The clinical diagnosis of stroke and stroke subtypes

  • Prof. Louis Caplan
• 43 min
  35. Pathophysiology of cerebral ischemia

  • Prof. Wolf-Dieter Heiss
• 30 min
  36. The investigation of stroke

  • Dr. Bart Demaerschalk
• 41 min
  37. Stroke in the young adult

  • Prof. Jeffrey Saver

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1. Introduction
2. Talk outline (1)
3. Cerebrovascular disease: realities and trends (1)
4. Disability-adjusted life years (DALY)
5. DALYs for individual neurological disorders
6. Projected burden of stroke
7. Acute vascular events
8. Cerebrovascular disease: realities and trends (2)
9. Lifetime risk of stroke and dementia
10. Framingham offspring study
11. Increased risk for stroke and function impairment
12. Incidence of first silent stroke
13. Prevalence of infarcts with age
14. Silent infarcts and cognitive decline
15. Cerebral microhemorrhage
16. Microbleeds and cognition
17. Coexistence of CV and Alzheimer disease
18. Epidemiological evidence
19. Post-stroke cognitive impairment
20. Pathological evidence
21. The nuns study
22. Preliminary data and survivability
23. Amyloid deposits in the brain
24. Cerebrovascular disease: realities and trends (3)
25. Joint effect of stroke and APOE-4 on dementia risk
26. Common standards for cognitive impairment
27. Vascular related risk/protective factors
28. Lifetime risk for developing hypertension (1)
29. Lifetime risk for developing hypertension (2)
30. Preventing cancer, CV disease and diabetes
31. Benefits of combination therapy
32. Typical distribution of a risk factor
33. Community based intervention trial
34. A prioritized approach
35. Keeping up without staying up
36. Keeping up without staying up (2)
37. Stroke journal
38. Conclusion
39. Acknowledgements

Topics Covered

• The growing burden of stroke
• Silent strokes, subtle thieves of mind
• A comprehensive approach to prevention
• A prioritized approach to stroke
• Keeping up without staying up

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Series:

• Cerebrovascular Disease

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Neuroscience

Therapeutic Areas:

• Neurology

Talk Citation

Publication History

• Published on October 27, 2008
• Reviewed on April 16, 2025

Financial Disclosures

• Professor Vladimir Hachinski has no commercial/financial relationships to disclose