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Informationen zum Autor D. Peter Birkett! MD is Director of the Columbia/New York State Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program and Attending Psychiatrist at Good Samiaritan Hosipital in Suffern! New York. Klappentext Treating stroke requires attention not only to patients' physical needs! but to their psychiatric needs as well. Unfortunately! there has been a considerable lack of literature that tackles this important facet of recovery. The Psychiatry of Stroke fills this void through a comprehensive examination that explores the mental and physical issues faced by stroke patients and offers up-to-date treatment options. Zusammenfassung Explores the mental and physical issues faced by stroke patients. This text also offers practical advice for improving the treatment of stroke by increasing the attention paid to its mental aspects. It demonstrates how mental impairment sets limits to stroke treatment and rehabilitation and shows how to evaluate and treat these impairments. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part 1: Background and Causation 2. Diagnosis of Stroke 3. Stroke Risk Factors 4. Strokes and Localization of Mental Function 5. The Neuropsychopharmacology of Stroke Part 2: Psychiatric Syndromes 6. Speaking and Understanding 7. Seeing and Believing 8. Hurting and Touching and Feeling 9. Sex 10. Apathy and Failure to Rehabilitate 11. Anger and Violence 12. Disinhibition 13. Paranoia and Delusions 14. Depression 15. Anxiety 16. Dementia Part 3: Outcome and Effects 17. The Process of Recovery 18. The Family 19. The Stroke Treatment Team 20. The Spectrum of Care 21. Legal Issues 22. Money 23. Ethics 24. Basic Anatomy of Stroke 25. Resources for Caregivers 26. Wilson, Roosevelt, Churchill, Hitler, and Stalin
