Poststroke depression

Lacasse, Jeffrey and Jonathan Leo, Estitalopram, Problem-Solving Therapy, and Poststroke Depression , Journal of the American Medical Association 300, no. 15 (2008) 1757-I0-58... 

Robinson, Robert G., Ricardo E. Jorge, David J. Moser, Laura Acion, Ana Solodkin, Steven L. Small, Pasquale Fonzetti, Mark Hegel and Stephan Arndt, Escitalopram and Problem-Solving Therapy for Prevention of Poststroke Depression A Randomized Controlled T rial , Journal of the American Medical Association 299, no. 20 (2008) 2391-400 Rogers, Carl, On Becoming a Person A Therapist s View of Psychotherapy, London Constable, 1961... 

Stimulants such as amphetamine and methylphenidate have been used to treat depression for many years. Stimulants should not be used alone, except perhaps in geriatric patients with prominent apathy, medically ill patients with depression, or patients with poststroke depression (Lingam et al. 1988). However, psychostimulants are useful for augmentation of antidepressant therapy in refractory depression, and they are generally safe, even for most patients with cardiac disorders. The nonamphetamine stimulant modafmil was found to be helpful in a recent placebo-controlled study involving 311 patients with partial response to SSRIs (Fava et al. 2005). 

Lingam VR, Lazarus LW, Groves L, et al Methylphenidate in treating poststroke depression. J Clin Psychiatry 49 151-153, 1988... 

Bhogal SK, Teasell R, Foley N et al. (2004). Lesion location and poststroke depression systematic review of the methodological limitations in the literature. Stroke 35 794-802... 

May be useful for treatment of depressive symptoms in medically III elderly patients May be useful for treatment of poststroke depression... 

Long-term treatment (1-10.5 years) of poststroke survivors with folic acid (2 mg), Bg (25 mg) and B12 (0.5 mg) was associated with a reduction in the hazard of major depression in the patient population. 

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