Table of Contents

Stroke Epidemiology, Etiology, and Background.- Treatment of Stroke.- Sensorimotor Control after Stroke.- Limb Apraxia: Types, Neural Correlates, and Implications for Clinical Assessment and Function in Daily Living.- Spatial Neglect: Not Simply Disordered Attention.- Post-Stroke Aphasia.- Disorders of Emotional Communication after Stroke.- Dysexecutive Syndrome after Stroke.- Memory Loss after Stroke.- Behavior after Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Cognition and Functional Outcome.- Cognitive Dysfunction after Intracerebral Hemorrhage, Vasculitis, and Other Stroke Syndromes.- Post-Stroke Depression.- Better Dead than Alive? Quality of Life after Stroke.- MRI Methods Applied to Stroke.- Clinical Outcomes, Stroke Trials, and Cognitive Outcome.- Cognitive Rehabilitation and Recovery after Stroke.

About the Author

Tom A. Schweizer, PhD
St. Michael’s Hospital, Neuroscience Research Program, University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto, ON, Canada

R. Loch Macdonald, MD, PhD
St. Michael’s Hospital, Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto, Department of Surgery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada