BookTom A. Schweizer, R. Loch Macdonald editors.
Summary: A comprehensive, state-of-the-art contribution to a field that is rapidly developing, The Behavioral Consequences of Stroke provides a broad overview of the cognitive and neurobehavioral effects of stroke. As attention to paralysis and the more obvious physical disabilities stroke patients incur expands, greater attention is being paid today to the cognitive and neurobehavioral complications that impact stroke morbidity and even functional neurological recovery in patients. Written by an international panel of experts and edited by a neurosurgeon and by a cognitive neuroscientist, this unique title addresses the full range of issues relevant to the field, including epidemiology, general treatment, sensorimotor control after stroke, post-stroke aphasia, memory loss after stroke, post-stroke depression, the role of imaging after a stroke, and an update on some stroke clinical trials, to name just some of the areas covered. Illuminative and an influential addition to the literature, The Behavioral Consequences of Stroke will serve as an invaluable resource for neurologists, neurosurgeons, physiatrists and other physicians, as well as physical, speech and occupational therapists, nurses, psychologists, and other professionals.
Contents:
Stroke epidemiology, etiology, and background / Deven Reddy and Robert G. Hart
Treatment of stroke / Douglas J. Cook and Michael Tymianski
Sensorimotor control after stroke / W. Richard Staines, David A.E. Bolton, and William E. McIlroy
Limb apraxia: types, neural correlates, and implications for clinical assessment and function in daily living / Eric A. Roy [and four others]
Spatial neglect: not simply disordered attention / James Danckert
Post-stroke aphasia / Marcelo L. Berthier [and three others]
Disorders of emotional communication after stroke / Kenneth M. Heilman
Dysexecutive syndrome after stroke / Olivier Godefroy [and four others]
Memory loss after stroke / Signy Sheldon and Gordon Winocur
Behavior after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: cognition and functional outcome / Timour Al-Khindi [and three others]
Cognitive dysfunction after intracerebral hemorrhage, vasculitis, and other stroke syndromes / Eric E. Smith and José Andrés Venegas-Torres
Post-stroke depression / Bradleigh D. Hayhow, Simone Brockman, and Sergio E. Starkstein
Better dead than alive? Quality of life after stroke / Thomas Schenk and Adam J. Noble
MRI methods applied to stroke / Bradley J. MacIntosh and Simon J. Graham
Clinical outcomes, stroke trials, and cognitive outcome / Benjamin W.Y. Lo [and four others]
Cognitive rehabilitation and recovery after stroke / Audrey Bowen and Emma Patchick.