Risk factors for prestroke dementia (and, hence, poststroke dementia) included medial temporal lobe atrophy, female sex and a family history of dementia. The occurrence of multiple strokes ...
A normal MRI brain, showing no atrophy, depicts the three areas of interest in the brain's medial temporal lobe: hippocampus (outlined in red); entorhinal cortex (blue) and perirhinal cortex (green).