THEME: "Emerging Challenges and Advances in Neurology and Neuropsychiatry"
The
most common neuropsychiatric outcomes of stroke are depression, anxiety,
fatigue, and apathy, which each occur in at least 30% of patients and have
substantial overlap of prevalence and symptoms. Cerebrovascular accident, cerebrovascular insult,
brain attack sometimes results in poor blood flow to the brain finally causes
cell death this sudden change causes Stroke. Stroke is of two types Ischemic and
Hemorrhagic. Stroke survivors are often affected by psychological distress and neuropsychiatric
disturbances. Clinical correlates of post-stroke depression include severity of
physical and cognitive impairment as well as location of brain
injury.