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The Clinical Neuropsychiatry of Stroke: Cognitive, Behavioral and Emotional Disorders following Vascular Brain Injury

The Clinical Neuropsychiatry of Stroke: Cognitive, Behavioral and Emotional Disorders following Vascular Brain Injury

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Robert G. Robinson
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 9/13/2012
EAN 9781107407428, ISBN10: 1107407427

Paperback, 484 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 3.4 cm
Language: English

This second edition covers the range of neuropsychiatric syndromes associated with stroke, including cognitive, emotional and behavioural disorders such as depression, anxiety and psychosis. There is growing recognition among a wide range of clinicians and allied healthcare staff that post-stroke neuropsychiatric syndromes are common and serious. Such complications can have a negative impact on recovery and even survival; however, there is now evidence suggesting that pre-emptive therapeutic intervention in high-risk patient groups can prevent the initial onset of the conditions. This opportunity for primary prevention marks a huge advance in the management of this patient population.

1. Recent trends in the epidemiology of stroke
2. Historical perspective
3. Brain organization and cerebral basis of emotion
4. Vascular anatomy and classification of stroke
5. Diagnosis of depression
6. Prevalence of depressive disorders
7. Phenomenology and specificity of depressive disorders
8. Natural course of depression
9. Delayed-onset depression (proofed)
10. Relationship to lesion location
11. Relationship of depression to cerebral dominance and structural asymmetries
12. Relationship of depression to bilateral hemisphere brain injury
13. Relationship of depression to physical impairment
14. Relationship to cognitive impairment and treatment
15. Relationship of aphasia to depression
16. Relationship of depression to social functioning
17. Relationship to premorbid risk factors
18. Mortality and treatment
19. Suicidal thoughts and plans
20. Biological markers
21. Mechanisms of poststroke depression
22. Treatment of poststroke depression
23. Prevention of poststroke depression
24. Prevalence and clinical symptoms
25. Clinical and lesion correlates of poststroke mania
26. Bipolar disorder following stroke
27. Mechanism of mania following stroke
28. Treatment of mania following stroke
29. Prevalence and specificity of clinical symptoms
30. Clinical and lesion correlates
31. Longitudinal course
32. Relationship of anxiety to outcome
33. Mechanism and treatment of poststroke anxiety disorder
34. Psychosis
35. Anosognosia and denial of illness
36. Catastrophic reaction
37. Apathy
38. Disturbance of prosody
39. Irritability and aggression
40. Pathological laughing and crying
41. Summary and future directions.

Review of the hardback: '... the reader enjoys a structured approach, with sections on prevalence and mechanism of the disorder, before discussion of treatment. Case histories complement the text throughout. Figures, mainly graphical, are clear and well used.' Acta Neurochirurgica