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The Clinical Neuropsychiatry of Stroke: Cognitive, Behavioral and Emotional Disorders Following Vascular Brain Injury
by Robert G. Robinson, 479 pp, with illus, $95, Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Arch Neurol. 1999;56:1165-1166.
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This volume, best described as a research monograph, summarizes work spanning 20 years by a prodigious research team led by the author and involving more than 700 subjects. Dr Robinson hoped to bring together in his book the broad range of emotional and behavioral disturbances seen after cerebrovascular accidents, to deal with diverging findings from other research teams, and to highlight the relevance of these findings through clinical outcomes studies. For the most part, he succeeds admirably.
The book begins with 4 chapters of introductory material, and these will be most helpful to non-neurologist physicians and other health care professionals involved in stroke rehabilitation. This is followed by 19 chapters related to major and minor depression, 6 chapters devoted to mania, 5 chapters on anxiety disorders, and a final section on other poststroke disturbances, including psychotic episodes, anosognosia, catastrophic reactions, apathy, aprosody, violence, and pathological laughing and crying. A concluding . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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