Post-stroke cognitive impairment
A condition that may mimic vascular dementia but is potentially reversible with treatment of mood symptoms.
What is pseudodementia?
A global cognitive screening tool that is commonly used but lacks sensitivity in identifying mild cognitive impairment.
What is the mini mental status exam? (MMSE)
The DSM-5 category under which post-stroke depression is classified.
What is a mood disorder due to another medical condition?
The minimum amount of time pharmacological treatment should continue for post-stroke depression.
What is 6 months?
This animal has three hearts and blue blood due to copper-based hemocyanin.
What is an octopus?
This cognitive domain is often relatively spared in early vascular cognitive impairment and more prominent in Alzheimer's dementia.
What is memory?
What is neuropsychological testing?
A syndrome of inappropriate or excessive laughing, crying, or anger.
What is pseudobulbar affect? (aka emotional lability)
This antidepressant medication is also a potent anti-nauseant and appetite stimulant.
What is mirtazapine?
This past November 10, (2025) was the 50th anniversary of the sinking of this ship when the gales of November came early.
What is the Edmund Fitzgerald?
Deposition of protein fragments in cortical and leptomeningeal vessels that contributes to intracerebral hemorrhage and cognitive decline.
What is cerebral amyloid angiopathy?
This approach to cognitive rehabilitation focuses on strategies to manage impairments, rather than directly improving specific cognitive domains.
What is Compensation strategy training?
The approximate fraction of stroke survivors who experience some form of post-stroke depressive symptoms.
What is 1/3?
This depression screening tool also screens for anxiety.
What is the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)?
In 1977, this sound was included on the Voyager Golden Record as a greeting to extraterrestrial life.
What is human laughter?
Infarcts that may be clinically unrecognized but still contribute to cognitive impairment.
What are silent infarcts?
This secondary stroke prevention strategy (medical management) has shown some benefit for improved attention and executive function.
What is intensive lipid lowering?
A stroke location associated with increased risk of acute-onset post-stroke depression.
What is the left frontal lobe?
This score or higher indicates severe depression on the PHQ-9.
What is 20?
This medical word literally translates to "bad air" and gave rise to an entire incorrect disease theory.
What is malaria?
What is Vascular Dementia?
An NMDA receptor antagonist that may be associated with stabilization or improvement in patients with vascular dementia (but is not yet routinely recommended due to inconclusive evidence).
A validated depression screening tool specifically designed for patients with aphasia.
What is the Stroke Aphasic Depression Questionnaire (SAD-Q)? OR What is the Aphasia Depression Rating Scale (ADRS)?
This medication has earlier onset than traditional antidepressants.
What is methylphenidate?
This sensory receptor type is responsible for detecting muscle stretch and contributes to proprioception.
What is a muscle spindle?