CHICAGO — For older adults who experience first-time stroke, approaching recovery with optimism improves functional recovery, according to a poster at the American Neurological Association annual meeting.
“We don’t have a great idea of why patients recover or don’t recover,” Kelly L. Sloane, MD, assistant professor of neurology, physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, said. “In cardiovascular literature, they describe that optimism and lack of depression are associated with better outcomes after