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ArticleScientific reports2020

Lesions in the right Rolandic operculum are associated with self-rating affective and apathetic depressive symptoms for post-stroke patients.

Stephanie Sutoko, Hirokazu Atsumori, Akiko Obata, Tsukasa Funane, Akihiko Kandori, Koji Shimonaga, Seiji Hama, Shigeto Yamawaki, Toshio Tsuji

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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33citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Volumetric analysis of the damage and response of non-invasive brain stimulation in patients with spatial neglect after stroke: a subgroup analysis of the ELETRON trial.Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologica · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Stephanie SutokoCenter for Exploratory Research, Research and Development Group, Hitachi. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. stephanie.sutoko.tc@hitachi.com.
Hirokazu AtsumoriCenter for Exploratory Research, Research and Development Group, Hitachi. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
Akiko ObataCenter for Exploratory Research, Research and Development Group, Hitachi. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
Tsukasa FunaneCenter for Exploratory Research, Research and Development Group, Hitachi. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
Akihiko KandoriCenter for Exploratory Research, Research and Development Group, Hitachi. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
Koji ShimonagaDepartment of Neurosurgery and Interventional Neuroradiology, Hiroshima City Asa Citizens Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan.
Seiji HamaDepartment of Rehabilitation, Hibino Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan.
Shigeto YamawakiCenter for Brain, Mind and KANSEI Sciences Research, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.
Toshio TsujiGraduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.
Hitachi (Japan) · JPHiroshima University · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stroke survivors majorly suffered from post-stroke depression (PSD). The PSD diagnosis is commonly performed based on the clinical cut-off for psychometric inventories. However, we hypothesized that PSD involves spectrum symptoms (e.g., apathy, depression, anxiety, and stress domains) and severity levels. Therefore, instead of using the clinical cut-off, we suggested a data-driven analysis to interpret patient spectrum conditions. The patients' psychological conditions were categorized in an unsupervised manner using the k-means clustering method, and the relationships between psychological conditions and quantitative lesion degrees were evaluated. This study involved one hundred sixty-five patient data; all patients were able to understand and perform self-rating psychological conditions (i.e., no aphasia). Four severity levels-low, low-to-moderate, moderate-to-high, and high-were observed for each combination of two psychological domains. Patients with worse conditions showed the significantly greater lesion degree at the right Rolandic operculum (part of Brodmann area 43). The dissimilarities between stress and other domains were also suggested. Patients with high stress were specifically associated with lesions in the left thalamus. Impaired emotion processing and stress-affected functions have been frequently related to those lesion regions. Those lesions were also robust and localized, suggesting the possibility of an objective for predicting psychological conditions from brain lesions.

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AdultAgedDepressionFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedMood DisordersParietal LobeSeverity of Illness IndexStroke

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PMID33219292
PMCPMC7679372
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