Treatment of Post Stroke Fatigue With a Wakefulness Promoting Agent

Inclusion Criteria: * 18 years of age and stroke within 14 days * Modified Rankin Scale 3 or under and Barthel 85 or over before stroke * Person that can understand instruction and do tests and questionnaires on their own or with support * has given informed consent * MFI-20 score of 12 or more * Infertile person or fertile women tested negative of pregnancy and using safe anticonception Exclusion Criteria: * Dementia or other neuropsychiatric disease making the person incapable of understanding instructions * Other disease with fatigue as a known symptom * stroke induced by trauma, infection or surgical procedure * former drug abuse * known contraindication to treatment with modafinil * known active malignancy, benign intracranial tumor, subdural or epidural bleeding * kidneydysfunction with creatinin more than 265 micromol/L or liver disease with ASAT (aspartate aminotransferase) elevated to more than 70 U/L for women or 100 U/L for men. * allergy to project treatment * use of benzodiazepin or antiepileptic drugs in a fixed dose. Sleeping pills not included. * Patients threaded with ciclosporin or anti HIV medication