BACKGROUND: Recent researches demonstrate that damage of executive function is an early manifestation of vascular cognitive disorder.OBJECTIVE: To investigate the executive functions of patients with transient ischemic attack (TIA).DESIGN: Case control.SETTING: Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical College.PARTICIPANTS: A total of 83 TIA patients (46 males and 37 females, aged 32 - 74 years) were selected from Department of Neurology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical College from July 2005 to December 2006. The diagnosis of TIA was established by the criteria of cerebrovascular diseases made by the Fourth National Cerebrovascular Disease Meeting. In these cases, forty-five patients (54

来源：中国神经再生研究（英文版） 2007 年 2卷 3期