The Behavioral Consequences of Stroke

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schweizer, Tom A. (Editor), Macdonald, R. Loch (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Critical care medicine.; Internal medicine.; Neurology.; Primary care (Medicine).; Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Internal Medicine.; Primary Care Medicine.

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 e...

Table of Contents:

• Stroke Epidemiology, Etiology, and Background
• Treatment of Stroke
• Sensorimotor Control after Stroke
• Limb Apraxia: Types, Neural Correlates, and Implications for Clinical Assessment and Function in Daily Living
• Spatial Neglect: Not Simply Disordered Attention
• Post-Stroke Aphasia
• Disorders of Emotional Communication after Stroke
• Dysexecutive Syndrome after Stroke
• Memory Loss after Stroke
• Behavior after Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Cognition and Functional Outcome
• Cognitive Dysfunction after Intracerebral Hemorrhage, Vasculitis, and Other Stroke Syndromes
• Post-Stroke Depression
• Better Dead than Alive? Quality of Life after Stroke
• MRI Methods Applied to Stroke
• Clinical Outcomes, Stroke Trials, and Cognitive Outcome
• Cognitive Rehabilitation and Recovery after Stroke.