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Second edition. By Robert G. Robinson. 470 pp., illustrated. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. $150. ISBN 978-0-521-84007-1.

The usual care of patients affected by stroke is focused on limiting or remediating impairments in sensorimotor function and on facilitating improvements in the performance of activities of daily living. This focus, however, affords too limited a view of the clinically important sequelae of stroke. Cognitive, emotional, and behavioral disorders complicate sensorimotor and functional recovery and are themselves substantial sources of further complication and suffering for stroke survivors and their families. Nonetheless, the neuropsychiatric consequences of stroke remain uncommon subjects of evaluation and treatment in most general medical settings.

In this second edition of The Clinical Neuropsychiatry of Stroke, Robert . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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