“…Although a large number of studies have focused on the association between the presence or absence of PSD and the stroke lesion location, the clinical association remains unclear (Robinson & Jorge, 2016). Robinson and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University first reported the hypothesis that the risk of becoming depressed after stroke onset is associated with the location of brain lesion and originates the concept of PSD (Robinson, Shoemaker, Schlumpf, Valk, & Bloom, 1975), and later leftâhemisphere strokes, especially, lesions of the left frontal region (Mayberg et al., 1988; Parikh et al., 1990; Robinson, Kubos, Starr, Rao, & Price, 1983).…”