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Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Cerebrovascular Diseases is an up-to-date, comprehensive review of the neuropsychiatry of stroke, by active authorities in the field, with an emphasis on diagnostic and management issues.
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Cerebrovascular Diseases includes critical appraisal of the methodological aspects and limitations of the current research on the neuropsychiatry of stroke and on unanswered questions/controversies. Pharmacological aspects of management are discussed, to provide robust information on drug dosages, side effects and interaction, in order to enable the reader to manage these patients more safely. Illustrative cases provide real life scenarios that are clinically relevant and engaging to read.
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Cerebrovascular Diseases is aimed at neurologists, stroke physicians and psychiatrists, and will also be of interest to intensive care doctors, psychologists ad neuropsychologists, research and specialist nurses, clinical researchers and methodologists.
List of contents
Part 1: Psychiatry of Stroke.- Delirium in stroke patients.- Poststroke Illusions and Hallucinations.- Depression after Stroke.- Mania.- Anxiety Disturbances in Stroke Patients.- Apathy.- Disturbances in the voluntary control of emotional expression after stroke.- Poststroke Aggressiveness.- Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Cerebrovascular Diseases.- Part 2: Psychiatry of Vascular Cognitive Impairment.- Neuropsychiatric symptoms of CADASIL.- Neuropsychiatric aspects of vascular cognitive impairment.- Part 3: Cerebrovascular Disease and Psychiatric Disturbances.- Psychological and psychiatric triggers and risk factors for stroke.- Vascular Depression.- Cerebrovascular Disease and Bipolar Disorder.
About the author
José M. Ferro, MD, PhD
Hospital de Santa Maria – CHLN, University of Lisbon
Portugal
Summary
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Cerebrovascular Diseases is an up-to-date, comprehensive review of the neuropsychiatry of stroke, by active authorities in the field, with an emphasis on diagnostic and management issues.
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From the reviews:
“This book is a welcome addition to the neuropsychiatric literature. … The primary audience is neurologists, stroke physicians, and psychiatrists … . Each chapter concludes with relevant and timely citations of the scientific literature. This excellent book on the neuropsychiatry of stroke is a must read for any clinician involved in the care of stroke patients. I highly recommend it.” (Michael Joel Schrift, Doody’s Book Reviews, November, 2013)
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From the reviews:
"This book is a welcome addition to the neuropsychiatric literature. ... The primary audience is neurologists, stroke physicians, and psychiatrists ... . Each chapter concludes with relevant and timely citations of the scientific literature. This excellent book on the neuropsychiatry of stroke is a must read for any clinician involved in the care of stroke patients. I highly recommend it." (Michael Joel Schrift, Doody's Book Reviews, November, 2013)
