From brain injury to classroom: cognitive and academic outcomes after pediatric stroke. A narrative review.

ABSTRACT: Pediatric stroke represents a rare and clinically significant event, often associated with heterogeneous cognitive sequelae. Early brain injury, particularly during the perinatal period, can result in impaired intellectual functioning and various neuropsychological deficits. Cognitive challenges typically affect language, memory, attention, and executive functions, with their nature and severity influenced by factors such as lesion location, age at onset, and comorbidities like epilepsy or sleep disturbances. Language deficits are commonly observed, particularly in cases involving left-hemispheric or basal ganglia damage, and may endure despite neuroplastic adaptation. Executive dysfunction is also frequently observed, typically involving reduced working memory and cognitive flexibility, a

SUBMITTER: Tarantino S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12591957 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature