Article: Acupuncture treatment of depressive syndromes after cerebral vascular accidents.(Abstracts)

Acupuncture Treatment of Depressive Syndromes after Cerebral Vascular Accidents, by Wang Hairong: Depressive syndrome is a common complication in cerebral vascular accidents (CVA), which accounts for 70% of all complications. A mild case of the syndrome is marked by grief, sleep disturbance, weakened mental activities, worry, loss of interest and irritability. A severe case may have worse symptoms and signs, such as anxiety, hallucination, delusion, desperation etc. The author describes his treatment of depressive syndromes after CVA in 140 cases. Of them, 86 were due to cerebral infarction, and 54 cerebral haemorrhage; 72 cases were male and 68 female, ranging in age from ...

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