The anterior cerebral artery extends upward and forward from the internal carotid artery. It supplies the frontal lobes, the parts of the brain that control logical thought, personality, and voluntary movement, especially of the legs. Stroke in the anterior cerebral artery results in opposite leg weakness.
Maria Theresa ruled for forty years the wide empire of Austria. Maria Theresa's first challenge was Prussia. They tried to occupy Silesia after the death of her father.
Maria Theresa (1717-1780). Habsburg Empress, Co-Regent of the Empire. Without male heirs, Charles IV altered Habsburg family law by the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, which proclaimed the indivisibility of his lands and designated his eldest daughter, Maria Theresa, as his successor.