Cerebrovascular Diseases: Post-stroke Depression and Anhedonia

摘要: Increasing interest in depression within acute and chronic cerebrovascular pathology is justified for its clinical relevance, since identification management of use reducing disability, the caregiver’s burden social-economic impact disease. Anhedonia, or markedly diminished pleasure, a hallmark symptom major depression, schizophrenia other neuropsychiatric disorders, including disorders. Since stroke survivors frequently suffer from research has focused on incidence, phenomenology, course risk factors post-stroke (PSD), paying special attention to biological explanatory models, such as lesion location vascular hypotheses. Small vessel microvascular lesions are no longer considered minor players fields cognitive impairment mood regulation. Unlike cognition, relationship between these dysregulation still matter intense debate. However, accumulation lacunes thalamus, basal ganglia deep white been recently strong correlate PSD.