Successful treatment of post-stroke apathy by the dopamine receptor agonist ropinirole

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 804-806

  Kohno, Naoto ^a   Abe, Satoshi ^a   Toyoda, Genya ^a   Oguro, Hiroaki ^a   Bokura, Hirokazu ^a   Yamaguchi, Shuhei ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apathy; Basal ganglia; Dopamine receptor agonist; Prefrontal cortex; Ropinirole; Stroke

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ROPINIROLE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; APATHY; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INVENTORY SCORE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

3-IODOBENZYLGUANIDINE; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; HUMANS; INDOLES; MALE; MOOD DISORDERS; STROKE;

EID: 77953132682     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2009.09.043     Document Type: Article

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