Restorative Neurology: Advances in Pharmacotherapy for Recovery After Stroke

This timely and thorough book focuses on pharmacotherapeutical strategies for facilitating the functional recovery of patients with stroke-related neurological impairments. Clinicians should find the sections on measuring stroke-related impairments and disabilities, clinical data of drug effects on recovery, and the use of antidepressant medications during the recovery period, to be of particular practical interest. By providing a broad overview of current studies - and an insight analysis of their clinical implications - the reader will surely gain a more confident understanding of how these emerging pharmacotherapies can work to enhance the recovery of stroke patients.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879934077
• ISBN13: 9780879934071
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 321 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.9" x 6.3"