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Mood Disorder Following Cerebrovascular Accident

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

M. R. Eastwood ,
S. L. Rifat ,
H. Nobbs  and
J. Ruderman
M. R. Eastwood*
Affiliation:
Departments of Psychiatry and Preventive Medicine, University of Toronto; Clarke Institute of Psychiatry
S. L. Rifat
Affiliation:
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Geriatric Psychiatry
H. Nobbs
Affiliation:
Clarke Institute of Psychiatry
J. Ruderman
Affiliation:
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto; Stroke Rehabilitation Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Toronto
*
∗Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, 250 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 1R8
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Abstract

Depression appears to be common after stroke, and therefore may have a bearing upon rehabilitation. To examine whether the depression is due to a specific brain lesion, or is reactive to the consequent disability, this study looked at the frequency and associations of depressed mood in a stroke rehabilitation unit in-patient population, unselected for site of lesion. Depression affected 50% of the patients; history of previous psychiatric disorder and cerebrovascular accident appeared to be important risk factors. There were hemispheric differences in the relationships between measures, with both the site-of-lesion and reactive viewpoints being upheld.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 154 , Issue 2 , February 1989 , pp. 195 - 200
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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