The care of stroke patients has changed dramatically in recent years. As well as improvements in the emergency care of the condition, there have been marked advances in our understanding, management and rehabilitation of residual deficits. This book is about the care of stroke patients, focusing on behavioral and cognitive problems. It provides a comprehensive review of the field covering the diagnostic value of these conditions in the acute and later phases, their requirements in terms of treatment and management and the likelihood and significance of long-term disability. This book will appeal to all clinicians involved in the care of stroke patients, as well as to neuropsychologists, other rehabilitation therapists and research scientists investigating the underlying neuroscience.
Author(s): Olivier Godefroy, Julien Bogousslavsky
Edition: 1
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 664
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 13
1 Evaluation of cognitive and behavioral disorders in the stroke unit......Page 15
2 Motor and gestural disorders: Abnormal movement and motor behavior......Page 29
3 Gestural apraxia......Page 50
4 Aphasia in stroke......Page 67
5 Acute vascular aphasia......Page 89
6 Dysarthria......Page 100
7 Alexia and agraphia in acute and chronic stroke......Page 116
8 Acalculia and Gerstmann’s syndrome......Page 140
9 Hemispatial neglect......Page 162
10 Anosognosia and denial after right hemisphere stroke......Page 212
11 Asomatognosia......Page 229
12 Disorders of visuoconstructive ability......Page 268
13 Topographical disorientation......Page 283
14 Cortical blindness......Page 294
15 Ba´ lint’s syndrome......Page 308
16 Prosopagnosia......Page 329
17 Object and color agnosia......Page 349
18 Auditory disorders related to strokes......Page 362
19 Dysexecutive syndromes......Page 383
20 Disorders of episodic memory......Page 421
21 Working memory dysfunctions in stroke patients......Page 445
22 Akinetic mutism and related disorders......Page 458
23 Alterations of level of consciousness related to stroke......Page 469
24 Delirium and confusional state in stroke patients......Page 503
25 Post-stroke delusion......Page 524
26 Acute behavioral and mood changes......Page 534
27 Stroke and personality change......Page 543
28 Post-stroke mania......Page 553
29 Depression after stroke......Page 562
30 Fatigue......Page 585
31 Vascular dementia......Page 600
32 Right versus left hemisphere syndromes......Page 631
Index......Page 651
