Mild traumatic brain injury and postconcussion syndrome : the new evidence base for diagnosis and treatment /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford New York:
Oxford University Press,
2008
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| Series: | Oxford workshop series
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0713/2007010728.html |
Table of Contents:
- Epidemiology and impact of traumatic brain injury
- Zeroing in on MTBI: epidemiology and impact
- Challenges in defining and diagnosing MTBI
- Advances in MTBI research methodologies
- Biomechanics of MTBI
- Neurophysiology of MTBI: the neurometabolic cascade
- Neuroimaging in MTBI
- Acute symptoms and symptom recovery
- Acute cognitive effects and early recovery
- Neuropsychological recovery
- Influence of acute injury characteristics on recovery
- Measuring neurophysiologic recovery
- Functional outcome after MTBI
- Exceptions to the rule: potential long-term effects of MTBI
- Defining postconcussion syndrome
- Nonspecificity of postconcussion syndrome symptoms
- Epidemiology of postconcussion syndrome: another denominator problem
- PCS as a neuropsychological disorder
- Psychological theories of postconcussion syndrome
- Interventional models for postconcussion syndrome
- A practical model for clinical management of PCS.