Brain, Vol. 124, No. 8, 1671-1672,
August 2001
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NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL SEQUELAE OF SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE AND ITS TREATMENT.
By B. O. Hitter. 2000. New York: Springer-Verlag. Price $78. Pp. 200. ISBN 3-21183-442-7.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Interest in the field of neuropsychology of subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) has undergone a rapid growth in the last several decades. Reductions in mortality and morbidity in SAH patients due to advances in both surgical and medical management (Ingall et al., 1989
; Le Roux et al., 1995, Sheridan and Pickard, 2000) have led to the increased attention of researchers being devoted to the important areas of psychosocial and cognitive outcome, particularly with respect to the growing numbers of patients who are now making a good neurological recovery.
Measures such as the Glasgow Outcome Score, which assess primarily the neurological status of the patient, do not adequately reflect the functional difficulties patients may face after haemorrhage (Ljunggren et al., 1985
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