Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section I. Introduction: 1. Defining the problem; 2. Historical perspective; 3. Brain organization and cerebral basis of emotion; 4.Vascular anatomy and classification of stroke; Section II. Post-Stroke Depression: 5. Diagnosis of depression; 6. Prevalence of depressive disorders; 7. Phenomenology and specificity of depressive symptoms; 8. Natural course of depression; 9. Delayed onset depressions; 10. Relationship of depression to lesion location; 11. Relationship of depression to cerebral dominance and structural asymmetries; 12. Relationship of depression to bilateral hemispheric brain injury; 13. Relationship of depression to physical impairment; 14. Relationship of depression to cognitive impairment; 15. Relationship of aphasia to depression; 16. Relationship of depression to social functioning; 17. Premorbid risk factors and post-stroke depression; 18. Relationship of depression to physical recovery from stroke; 19. Effect of depression on mortality following stroke; 20. Suicidal thoughts and plans; 21. Biological markers; 22. Mechanism of post-stroke depression; 23. Treatment of post-stroke depression; Section III. Post-Stroke Mania; 24. Prevalence and clinical symptoms; 25. Clinical correlates of post-stroke mania; 26. Relationship of non-lesion factors to post-stroke mania; 27. Bipolar disorder following stroke; 28. Mechanism of mania following stroke; 29.Treatment of mania following stroke; Section IV. Anxiety Disorders; 30. Prevalence and clinical symptoms; 31. Clinical and lesion correlates; 32. The longitudinal course and clinical correlates; 33. The relationship of anxiety disorder to outcome; 34. Mechanism and treatment; SectionV. Other Neuropsychiatric Disorders; 35. Schizophreniform psychosis; 36. Anosognosia and denial of illness; 37. Catastrophic reactions; 38. Apathy; 39. Disturbance of prosody; 40. Irritability and violence; 41. Pathological laughing and crying; 42. Conclusions and future directions.