中医药治疗中风后抑郁症临床研究进展

中风后抑郁是常见的脑中风后并发症,可以严重影响中风患者主动康复训练的积极性从而延缓恢复过程,中医药在治疗中风后抑郁症方面有一定优势。文章从病因病机、中医药及针灸治疗等方面将近年来有关中风后抑郁研究及文献进行综述,并对中医药治疗本病的优势及目前存在的一些问题进行讨论,提出今后研究思路与建议。

Clinical Research Progress of Chinese Medicine Treatment on Post-stroke Depression

Post-stroke depression(PSD)is considered as the most frequent and important neuropsyehiatry consequence of stroke,this condition can have an adverse effection on cognitive function,funetional recovery and survival.Acupuncture coordinated with Chinese herbal medicine therapy has certain advantages of PSD.This article gives a systematic review on the prevalence and the epidemiology of PSD,outlines the merit of acupuncture coordinated with Chinese herbal medicine therapy on this disorder and debates on some issues of the current understanding of diagnosis and clinical management of Post-stroke depression.It is proposed that Chinese medicine treatment of PSD has obvious advantages,but there are still problems to be solved.