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Etiological mechanisms of post-stroke depression: a review.
Neurological research - 1 Nov 2009
Fang Jing, Cheng Qi
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Post-stroke depression (PSD) has become a prominent negative factor of stroke recovery. Different etiological mechanisms may be involved, and there forms two major hypotheses: biological hypothesis and psychological hypothesis. Biological hypothesis included four mechanisms: lesion location mechanism, neurotransmitters mechanism, inflammatory cytokines mechanism and gene polymorphism mechanism. As for lesion...
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