Abstract
Neuropsychiatrists are interested in stroke because of what it might tell us about the neural basis of mental disorder. The stroke lesion is (apparently) neatly localized, and onset is sudden so that it is relatively easy to characterize the course of associated mental abnormality. In this book, Dr Robinson concentrates on his own research in stroke-related psychopathology. His main studies have been in the nature of depression associated with stroke, and his thesis (broadly) is this. Depression is a specific complication of stroke, and it has two different manifestations. The more interesting is the so-called major depressive syndrome—it comes early and persists; it is strongly associated with lesion location; it affects social and intellectual function and it is associated with worse outcomes, including increased mortality. Fortunately …
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