A Broad-Based and In-Depth Overview of the Neuropsychiatry of Stroke

Abstract

The Clinical Neuropsychiatry of Stroke: Cognitive, Behavioral, and Emotional Disorders following Vascular Brain Injury. Second Edition, by Robert G. Robinson. 2006. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 470 pp., $150.00 (HB)Many researchers have explored the development of emotional and psychiatric disorders following stroke. Few individuals, however, have dedicated years of clinical research to the topic or have the depth of knowledge required to critically evaluate the existent large body of literature. In the second edition of The Neuropsychiatry of Stroke, Dr. Robert Robinson eloquently summarizes and reviews major findings, including his own work and that of other investigators of emotional and psychiatric functioning after stroke and other brain injuries. In the first edition of The Clinical Neuropsychiatry of Stroke (1998), Robinson explored factors associated with the development of neuropsychiatric disorders following stroke. In this second edition, the original text is updated with recent studies on the development of neuropsychiatric disorders, such as poststroke depression, mania, and anxiety. A cogent argument is presented for a second edition, noting that the number of publications related to poststroke depression alone between 1998 and 2004 had more than doubled compared to the prior 7-year period (1990 to 1997).