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- Common Pitfalls in Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology
- Common Pitfalls in Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Diseases Discussed in the Book
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part 1 Missing the Diagnosis Altogether
- Part 2 Misidentifying the Impaired Cognitive Domain
- Part 3 Missing Important Clues in the History
- Case 11 The Stroke of Clarity
- Case 12 Losing One’s Mind without Knowing?
- Case 13 The Disease Has Caught Up with Her
- Case 14 Recognizing the Right Signs of Memory Impairment
- Case 15 Talking about Family Matters
- Part 4 Failure of Pattern Recognition
- Part 5 Difficult-to-Characterize Cognitive/Behavioral Disorders
- Part 6 Clinical Findings That Are Subtle
- Part 7 Misinterpreting Test Results
- Part 8 Attributing Findings to a Known or Suspected Disorder
- Part 9 Missing Radiographic Clues
- Part 10 Management Misadventures
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Case 11 - The Stroke of Clarity
from Part 3 - Missing Important Clues in the History
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2020
- Common Pitfalls in Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology
- Common Pitfalls in Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Diseases Discussed in the Book
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part 1 Missing the Diagnosis Altogether
- Part 2 Misidentifying the Impaired Cognitive Domain
- Part 3 Missing Important Clues in the History
- Case 11 The Stroke of Clarity
- Case 12 Losing One’s Mind without Knowing?
- Case 13 The Disease Has Caught Up with Her
- Case 14 Recognizing the Right Signs of Memory Impairment
- Case 15 Talking about Family Matters
- Part 4 Failure of Pattern Recognition
- Part 5 Difficult-to-Characterize Cognitive/Behavioral Disorders
- Part 6 Clinical Findings That Are Subtle
- Part 7 Misinterpreting Test Results
- Part 8 Attributing Findings to a Known or Suspected Disorder
- Part 9 Missing Radiographic Clues
- Part 10 Management Misadventures
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Summary
This 75-year-old right-handed woman presented with a nine-month history of progressive cognitive impairment. Her children reported that the first problem was, abruptly, an inability for her to see things on the left side of her visual field. In the hospital, she was found to have left homonymous hemianopia associated with a stroke in the right occipital lobe. During her admission she appeared disoriented, claiming she was at her mother’s house. Repeat imaging was unchanged, and metabolic and infectious workups did not show abnormalities. She returned to baseline before the discharge. After her discharge, her children noted progressive decline. She became increasingly forgetful about recent events and repetitive in her questions and statements. Due to the temporal correlation between these symptoms and the stroke, she was diagnosed with poststroke dementia.
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- Common Pitfalls in Cognitive and Behavioral NeurologyA Case-Based Approach, pp. 35 - 37Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020