Open AccessPost-stroke depression and lesion location: A hospital based cross-sectional study
Author(s) -
Pooja Rajashekaran,
Keshava Pai,
Ravish Thunga,
Bhaskaran Unnikrishnan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.120546
Subject(s) - cross sectional study , depression (economics) , stroke (engine) , medicine , lesion , psychiatry , pathology , physics , economics , macroeconomics , thermodynamics
Depression is a common neuro-psychiatric consequence of stroke, affecting approximately 40% of the patients. Many studies show that in addition to the psychosocial stress, neurobiological factors such as site of infarct and brain atrophy may also be related to Post Stroke Depression (PSD). There are conflicting results in this area of research and paucity of such data in Indian literature. Thus the aim of this study is to weigh the importance of lesion location in PSD.