Brain, Vol. 124, No. 10, 2121,
October 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press
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THE CLINICAL NEUROPYSCHIATRY OF STROKE: COGNITIVE, BEHAVIOURAL AND EMOTIONAL DISORDERS FOLLOWING VASCULAR BRAIN INJURY.
By Robert G. Robinson. 1998. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Price £60. Pp. 491. ISBN 0-52144-234-6.
Professor of Liaison Pyschiatry, Leeds, UK
Neuropsychiatrists are interested in stroke because of what it might tell us about the neural basis of mental disorder. The stroke lesion is (apparently) neatly localized, and onset is sudden so that it is relatively easy to characterize the course of associated mental abnormality. In this book, Dr Robinson concentrates on his own research in stroke-related psychopathology. His main studies have been