FROM THE EDITOR / 7 THE PLACE OF OPL IN MODERN PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS, THERAPY, AND REHABILITATION OF PATIENTS WITH STROKE – Vlizar Velkovski, Ivan Filipov / 9 NATIONAL STROKE REGISTRY IN BULGARIA – MISSION POSSIBLE – Georgi Ivanov, Velina Gergelcheva / 12 ECONOMIC VALUE OF STROKE – Georgi Vuldzhev, Arkadi Sharkov / 14 "THE PERSON BEHIND THE DISEASE" – NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE IN STROKE. CHALLENGES AND INTERVENTIONS – Fotka Georgieva / 24 PFO – WHERE CARDIOLOGY AND NEUROLOGY JOIN HANDS – Lyubomir Dimitrov, Petya Parashkevova / 32 STROKE, BODY IMAGE AND SUBJECTIVE SELF-PERCEPTION – A LOOK AT SOME PSYCHOANALYTICAL AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES – Velislava Donkina / 37 WHOLE-BRAIN IRRADIATION IN CASE OF BRAIN METASTASES – PREVENTION OF RADIATION BRAIN TOXICITY WITH ALTERNATIVE RADIATION TECHNIQUES – M. Kisimova, G. Ganev, N. Tolev, V. Yanakieva, D. Dimov, R. Krasteva, Zahari Zahariev, T. Hadzhieva / 48 SPECIALIZED KINESIOTHERAPY METHODS FOR PAIN IN THE LUMBAR REGION – Yulian Zlatkov / 58 THE ROLE OF LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE IN NEUROLOGICAL PRACTICE – Krasimira Zlatkova / 68 swLORETA qEEG MONITORING IN PERSONALIZED THERAPY OF APHATIC DISORDERS IN A PATIENT WITH ISCHEMIC STROKE IN THE BASIN OF THE LEFT MEDIAN CEREBRAL ARTERY – Dimitar Kolev, Elka Goranova / 78 NEUROREHABILITATION – ROBOTIC REHABILITATION IN CEREBRAL STROKE – Miglena Mileva, Gergana Nenova / 89 ANTICOAGULANT TREATMENT IN CEREBRAL STROKE – Mihail Emilov Tsalta-Mladenov / 97 THE ROLE OF THE SPEECH THERAPIST IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF DYSPHAGIA AFTER A STROKE – Miglena Simonska / 100 CEREBROVASCULAR INCIDENTS – WHEN AND HOW TO THINK "RHEUMATOLOGICALLY": FROM THE RARE TO THE RAREST – VASCULITIS – Bogdan Penev / 108 CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE – DOES IT LEAD TO AN INCREASED RISK OF STROKE? – Rumen Filev, Mila Lyubomirova, Boris Bogov / 112 SLEEP AND STROKE – Petar Chipev / 122