Behavior modification may be helpful for some people in controlling unacceptable or dangerous behaviors. Family counseling may help in coping with the changes required for home care. Visiting nurses or aides, volunteer services, homemakers, adult protective services, and other community resources may be helpful. Legal advice may be appropriate. Advance directives, power of attorney , and other legal actions may make it easier to make ethical decisions regarding the care of the person with organic brain syndromes such as stroke.
Stroke requires immediate treatment.
This person's legs cross over each other when walking. The person must raise the pelvis to move the affected leg, and the toes usually drag on the ground. A carotid arteriogram is an X-ray study designed to determine if there is narrowing or other abnormality in the carotid artery, a main artery to the brain. There is enlargement of the vein or ulceration in the area after the stenosis in this close-up film. Note the narrowed segment toward the bottom of the picture.