الفهرس 
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Abstract
Stroke is the third most common cause of death and the most common cause of adult disability. Cerebral infarction is responsible for about 80 % of all strokes. Stroke can cause sensorimotor disturbances, cognitive impairements, neglect syndrome, disturbance of executive functions, aphasia and dysartheria. The vascular cognitive impairments varies from simple deficit to overt dementia. Fortunately the brain is plastic and able to recognize itself up to certain degree of damage. Functional recovery after stroke is influenced by many factors and recovery profile is characterized by high individual variability. Understanding the models of recovery leads to new strategies emerged based on scientific basis. Some of these modalities are based on stimulating the brain transmitters that enhance plasticity such as pharmacological rehabilitation. Some depend on the repetitive usage of the disabled part in order to stimulate reorganization of brain area representing this part, such as constraint-induced movement therapy, virtual reality technique and robotic therapy rehabilitation methods. The cognitive status of the patients strongly affects their consent as well as the success of drug therapy, physical rehabilitation and preventive strategies. So, early diagnosis and treatments of cognitive impairments improving treatment of the patients and rehabilitation. Post-stroke depression is twice more in females than in males. More attention should be focused on depressive symptoms of male patients, the long term prognosis of whom may be poorer than that of females. The best predictor of later depression was found to be acute phase depression. The most common medical complication after stroke is venous thromboembolism which is must be prophylacted by early use of anticoagulants to prevent the pulmonary embolism.