ABSTRACT
Persons who are close to brain-impaired patients often report changes in the patients' personalities. They emphatically state: "It is like I am living with a new person!" A quote from the wife of a 42-year-old man recovering from a right hemisphere vascular accident due to carotid artery occlusion and mild neurocognitive findings illustrates such a concern:
Although the form and intensity of these complaints vary, the theme is always the samepersonality has changed since the brain damage.
