Mood and emotional changes
How aphasia may affect your mood and emotions.
Understanding the emotional, thinking and memory problems that can follow a stroke
This Lectureship will investigate how common thinking and mood problems are after stroke, how they change over time, and how these changes can be predicted.
Understanding the nature and impact of long term psychological changes (thinking, mood and fatigue) after stroke
This research aims to find out more about how thinking and mood are affected long-term after stroke, and the impact it has on people’s lives.
Can we adapt a social participation and mood therapy to help those with language difficulties after stroke?
This study will explore whether an existing therapy, Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), can be used for people with aphasia. Information will also be collected to design a future large-scale trial evaluating this approach.
AMRC - A spotlight on medical health research
Monday 8 May 2017
Today, the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) launched a new spotlight report highlighting the positive difference medical research charities are making for mental health patients across the UK.
How do emotion, thinking and memory change following a stroke?
Problems of mood, thinking and memory are common after a stroke. There has been limited research around these issues. This work aims to answer fundamental questions around who develops these problems and how they recover.
Emotional changes
This page explains how a stroke can affect the way you feel, some of the emotional problems that can happen because of it and some of the things that can help to treat them.
Priority Programme Award in Psychological Consequences of Stroke
Wednesday 2 September 2015
Announcing the first of our new Priority Programme Awards, given to Dr Terry Quinn, who will lead on research into the psychological consequences of stroke.
Adjustment post-stroke and aphasia: supporting well-being through peer befriending
This project aims to find out if peer support can avert some of the adverse psychological consequences of aphasia.
Delivering group support for people with aphasia through Eva Park
About one-third of stroke survivors are left with aphasia. This is a language disorder that disrupts the production and comprehension of speech, as well as reading and writing. This study will investigate whether a support group intervention can be delivered remotely to people with aphasia through a virtual island platform called Eva Park.