The Impact of Post-Stroke Depressive Symptoms on Cognitive Performance in Women and in Men: A 4 Month Prospective Study.

: Depressive symptoms have been associated with cognitive impairment after stroke, and women may be specifically affected. : The aim of this study was to investigate gender-specific characteristics in the relationship between changes in depression severity and changes in cognitive performance after stroke. : We prospectively evaluated 73 patients without a previous history of depression in the first and fourth months after a first ischemic stroke.

The association of post-stroke anhedonia with salivary cortisol levels and stroke lesion in hippocampal/parahippocampal region.

Background: Anhedonia constitutes a coherent construct, with neural correlates and negative clinical impact, independent of depression. However, little is known about the neural correlates of anhedonia in stroke patients. In this study, we investigated the association of post-stroke anhedonia with salivary cortisol levels and stroke location and volume.

The influence of depressive symptoms on quality of life after stroke: a prospective study.

Background: Poststroke depressive symptoms have prospectively predicted impairment of health-related quality of life (HRQOL). However, it is not known whether such predictive effect is independent of HRQOL at 1 month after stroke. This study aimed to investigate the impact of depressive symptoms at 1 and 3 months after stroke on the 3-month poststroke HRQOL and to investigate the influence of the HRQOL measured at 1 month after stroke on these relationships.

Association among depression, cognitive impairment and executive dysfunction after stroke.

Unlabelled: The relationship between depression and cognitive impairment, frequent after stroke, is complex and has not been sufficiently elucidated.

Objective: To review the relationship between post-stroke depression and cognitive impairment.

Methods: We performed a PubMed database search spanning the last ten years, using the terms post-stroke depression, cognitive dysfunction, cognitive impairment and neuropsychological tests.

Loss of interest, depressed mood and impact on the quality of life: cross-sectional survey.

Background: Depressive symptoms and chronic disease have adverse effects on patients' health-related quality of life (H-RQOL). However, little is known about this effect on H-RQOL when only the two core depressive symptoms - loss of interest and depressed mood - are considered. The objective of this study is to investigate H-RQOL in the presence of loss of interest and depressed mood at a general medical outpatient unit.