However, most studies did not exclude patients with depressive symptoms shortly before stroke and paid little attention to prestroke risk factors of depression, including previous depressive episodes, white matter lesions, and brain atrophy. These are potential limitations to assess the true effect of ...
This is a cross-sectional study explored levels of depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms and identified their predictors among Jordanian individuals with stroke. Outcome measures included Depression Anxiety Stress Scale, Fugl-Meyer assessment, goniometry, hand-held dynamometry, nine-hole peg test, ...
. We found high occurrence of depression in stroke patients. We tested for its severity and for its different symptoms in order to compare them to other studies and discover which are most common in post-stroke depression. As a conclusion, we summarize our results that among our contingent ...
Post-stroke depression (PSD) can be conceptualized as a complex network where PSD symptoms (PSDS) interact with each other. The neural mechanism of PSD and interactions among PSDS remain to be elucidated. This study aimed to investigate the neuroanatomical substrates of, as well as the interacti...
Sensory symptoms had gradually improved or remained stable after the initial events. However, when another stroke occurred on the contralateral thalamic-occipital, frontoparietal, lateral medulla, temporoparietal and pontine areas, respectively, previous sensory symptoms significantly worsened and became ...
Stroke survivors majorly suffered from post-stroke depression (PSD). The PSD diagnosis is commonly performed based on the clinical cut-off for psychometric inventories. However, we hypothesized that PSD involves spectrum symptoms (e.g., apathy, depressio
The objective of this research was to determine the unique contribution of SS behavioral and psychological symptoms on caregiver emotional distress during the first 2 years poststroke. Method- A longitudinal cohort study was conducted of individuals who have survived their first stroke and their ...
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To make matters worse, because the fetus' heart was still beating, doctors could not induce labor to protect Anaya from infection because of Texas' abortion ban. Anaya says her doctors needed to be able to prove that Anaya's life was at risk before intervening. ...