Case reports of unexpected suicides in patients within six months after stroke

Kobe Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Katayama, Masahiro ^a,b   Naritomi, Hiroaki ^c   Oomura, Masahiro ^d   Nukata, Masaru ^e   Yamamoto, Shiro ^f   Araki, Ken ^g   Kato, Hiroki ^h   Kinoshita, Makoto ^h   Ito, Taiji ⁱ   Shimode, Atsuko ^j   Takenobu, Yohei ^k   Watanabe, Manabu ^l   Fukunaga, Ryuzo ⁱ   Taguchi, Akihiko ^m   Hazama, Akihiro ⁿ   Inglin, Mark ^o   Krieger, Derk W ^p  

^a Senri Chuou Hospital   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Director of Senri Chuou Hospital   (Japan)

^d Nagoya City University East Medical Center   (Japan)

^e Department of Internal Medicine   (Japan)

^f KOBE CITY MEDICAL CENTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^g OSAKA ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^h OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

ⁱ HOSHIGAOKA KOSEINENKIN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^j ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^k KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^l OSAKA GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^m NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

ⁿ FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^o SciMed Consulting Science Neuroscience and Medical Editing Pre publication Review   (Switzerland)

^p UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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Author keywords

Aphasia; Depression; Parietal cortex; Stroke; Suicide; Temporal cortex

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; CLOTIAZEPAM; ETIZOLAM; PAROXETINE;

ADULT; AGED; ALEXIA; AMNESIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; DIZZINESS; DYSARTHRIA; DYSGRAPHIA; DYSLEXIA; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HANGING; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MALE; NEGLECT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SLURRED SPEECH; STROKE; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WEAKNESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 79951473391     PISSN: 00232513     EISSN: 18830498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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