Emotional Disturbance and Subarachnoid Haemorrhage

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Abstract
Subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) is fairly common, especially between the ages of 45 and 60 years, with an estimated incidence of 6 per 100,000 per annum in the area from which these patients were drawn. The mortality is high, as only 65% of those admitted to hospital are alive six months later. Morbidity is also high, both physical and mental; and 55% of 261 patients I followed up [Storey, 1967] had some mental changes. During the course of that study a number of patients, and their relatives, attributed the stroke to emotional stress. It is of course well known that such cases occur, but there appears to have been no systematic study of the subject. This present paper is in two parts: the first describes some of the findings in that follow-up study; the second is an account of a more recent and more prospective study.

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