Future research should focus on previously cognitively intact patients with a first lacunar stroke, extend follow-up for as long as practicable, subtype the stroke on clinical grounds aided by early ...

Telephone 0049 6131 175162; fax 0049 6131 173271. OBJECTIVES The pathophysiology of dysarthria can preferentially be studied in patients with the rare lacunar stroke syndrome of “isolated dysarthria”.