Cognitive Dysfunction after First Stroke:association with depression and location of lesion / 中国心理卫生杂志

Objective: To study the relation among cognitive dysfunction, depression, and location of brain lesion in patients with their first stroke Method: Sixty-two patients with their first episode of single loci stroke demonstrated by CT scan were tested with WAIS-RC, HAMD and SSS Results: Final Intelligence Quotient (FIQ), Verbal Intelligence Quotient (VIQ) and Verbal score of WAIS-RC in patients with anterior lesions were significantly lower than those in patients with posterior lesions (P0 05) Multiple step-regression showed that depression, age and education had influence on IQ of patients Conclusion: Patients with anterior stroke has more cognitive dysfunction