Affiliations: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
Note: [1] The preparation of this manuscript was supported in part by a grant (NS24608) from the National Institutes of Health. Part of this manuscript was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, Kansas City, MO, 1985.
Note: [2] Requests for reprints should be sent to the senior author at the following address: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Box 1240, Mount Sinai Medical Center, 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029-6574.
Abstract: In this paper, traditional approaches to the neuropsychological assessment of individuals with stroke are reexamined in light of research suggesting the breadth of post-stroke cognitive and affective impairments that are independent of laterality of brain damage. A domain-specific approach to neuropsychological evaluation is presented which includes the evaluation of a patients level of awareness of both cognitive and affective sequelae of stroke, an in-depth mood assessment, delineation of an individual’s cognitive strengths and limitations, and assessment of learning potential.
