Manic attack in ischemic stroke: Case report

Hayriye Küçükoğlu, Ayten Ceyhan, Lütfü Hanoğlu, Sevim Baybas

It has been shown that affective disorders appearing during or after strokes are generally major or minor depression .Such depression occurs in % 30-50 of stroke patients.Frequently depression is associated with left cortical and left basal ganglia lesions.On the other hand mania is a rare complication of stroke and strongly associated with right hemisfer lesions. In this article, a case of post stroke mania is presented.