José M. Ferro
Editor
2013
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Cerebrovascular Diseases is the fi rst book of a series of volumes on the psychiatric aspects of common neurological diseases, to be published by Springer-Verlag. The fi rst volume is dedicated to acute stroke and other cerebro-vascular diseases. Stroke and chronic cerebro-vascular disease, namely vascular cognitive impairment and dementia, are among the commonest causes of longstanding disability due to diseases of the central nervous system. Neuropsychiatric complications are quite frequent both in the acute phase of stroke (e.g. delirium, denial) and in stroke survivors or in patients with vascular cognitive impairment (e.g. depression, apathy).