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

This fully revised second edition covers the range of neuropsychiatric syndromes associated with stroke.This fully revised second edition covers the range of neuropsychiatric syndromes associated with stroke, including cognitive, emotional and behavioural disorders. There is a growing recognition among a wide range of clinicians and allied healthcare staff that post-stroke neuropsychiatric syndromes are both common and serious.This fully revised second edition covers the range of neuropsychiatric syndromes associated with stroke, including cognitive, emotional and behavioural disorders. There is a growing recognition among a wide range of clinicians and allied healthcare staff that post-stroke neuropsychiatric syndromes are both common and serious.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 bl39