Progresses of MRI for post-stroke depression / 中国医学影像技术

ABSTRACT

Post-stroke depression (PSD) is a common non-somatic disorder in stroke patients,and the pathogenesis has not been clarified.The PSD can reduce the quality of life and social function for the stroke patients,and shorten the life span of stroke patients.With the development of imaging technology,the new MR imaging techniques and the computeraided whole brain MRI image analyses have been widely used to study the structure,function and metabolic changes of the brain recently.These new techniques and methods can help the scholars to explore the risk factors and related mechanisms of PSD from various perspectives,which is of great significance to understand the PSD.The applications of MRI in PSD were reviewed in this article.