WEBCerebrovascular Disease (stroke or "brain attack"): NEW: Multiple embolic infarction, diffusion and FLAIR imaging. Acute stroke: speech arrest. Acute stroke: speaks nonsense words, "fluent aphasia" (time-lapse movies) Acute stroke: writes, but can't read, "alexia without agraphia". Subacute stroke: hesitating speech, "transcortical aphasia".