Neuroprotective treatment strategies for poststroke mood disorders: A minireview on atypical neuroleptic drugs and selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors

In our minireview we summarize the neuroprotective effect of atypical antipsychotic and selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors after cerebral ischemia. In regard of increasing rate of poststroke mood disorders and current evidences indicating to an increased rate of cerebrovascular accidents after neuroleptic usage by the elderly population we also reviewed the clinical relevance of the neuroprotective and mood stabilizing effect of atypical antipsychotic agents in the light of basic pathophysiology of stroke.