Does cerebral infarction affect intelligence?

Cerebral infarction generally refers to cerebral infarction. Whether cerebral infarction will affect intelligence needs to be judged according to the severity of the disease and the location of the lesion.

Cerebral infarction is usually caused by ischemic necrosis or softening of brain tissue, and is mostly related to factors such as atherosclerosis, cardiogenic embolism and small artery occlusion. For patients with small infarction area and no important brain function area involved, timely treatment such as lowering intracranial pressure, controlling blood pressure and blood sugar, and oxygen inhalation can usually control the disease and generally will not affect intelligence. However, if it is an infarction located in the posterior cerebral artery, especially for a large infarction area, basilar artery occlusion can affect the normal function of the brain, causing memory damage, thus affecting intelligence.