Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord Injury

Challenges and Developments
Herausgeber: Morganti-Kossmann, Cristina; Maas, Andrew; Raghupathi, Ramesh

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents the most up-to-date clinical and experimental research in neurotrauma in an illustrated, accessible, comprehensive volume.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 188mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9781107007437
• ISBN-10: 1107007437
• Artikelnr.: 34692592

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Part I. Traumatic Brain Injury: 1. Current evaluation of TBI
epidemiology in an ageing society with improved preventative measures Peter
L. Reilly; 2. Neurotrauma: an emerging epidemic in low and middle income
countries G. K. Prusty, G. Gururaj and K. K. Dey; 3. Blast induced
traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder Ankit I. Mehta,
Gerald A. Grant and Lawrence F. Marshall; 4. Psychological effects of mild
traumatic brain injury: their nature and treatment Jennie Ponsford; 5.
Developments of neuroimaging techniques to diagnose and visualize white
matter damage Virginia F. J. Newcombe and David K. Menon; 6. New advances
in monitoring the injured brain metabolism David M. Benglis, Jr, Brett
Trimble and A. Ross Bullock; 7. Potential use and limitations of
microdialysis for monitoring of neurochemical changes after TBI Lars
Hillered and Per Enblad; 8. Metabolic and therapeutic differences in
pediatric and adult TBI: implications for clinical care and therapeutic
hypothermia Michael J. Bell and Patrick M. Kochanek; 9. Utility of
biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis of traumatic brain injury Kevin K.
W. Wang, Linda Papa and Ronald L. Hayes; 10. Animal models of mild and
severe TBI: what have we learned in the past 30 years? Jenna M. Ziebell,
Frances Corrigan and Robert Vink; 11. Pediatric brain trauma: what do
age-appropriate animal models teach us about the age-at-injury? Ramesh
Raghupathi and Jimmy W. Huh; 12. The complexity of traumatic axonal injury
Kathryn E. Saatman; 13. Cerebral inflammation after traumatic injury:
regulation of secondary damage, repair or both? Bridgette D. Semple and M.
Cristina Morganti-Kossmann; 14. Controversial findings on the role of NMDA
receptors in traumatic brain injury Esther Shohami and Anat Biegon; 15.
Plasticity and recovery of the injured brain Dorothy A. Kozlowski and
Theresa A. Jones; 16. Design and analysis of clinical trials in TBI Bob
Roozenbeek and Andrew Maas; 17. Future perspectives for the treatment of
traumatic brain injury patients: decompressive craniectomy, hypothermia and
erythropoietin Alastair D. Nichol, Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld and D. James
Cooper; Part II. Traumatic Spinal Injury: 18. Global epidemiology of
traumatic spinal cord injury Julio C. Furlan and Charles H. Tator; 19.
Classification and surgical stabilization of the injured spine Ricky
Rasschaert and Thomas Kossmann; 20. Spinal cord injury: pathophysiology and
prospect of decompressive surgical treatment Jefferson R. Wilson and
Michael G. Fehlings; 21. Modeling the injured spinal cord to match the
human condition Jacqueline C. Bresnahan and Michael S. Beattie; 22. Myelin
inhibitors of neurite outgrowth in spinal cord injury Michael F. Azari and
Steven Petratos; 23. Controversies on the role of inflammation in the
injured spinal cord John C. Gensel and Phillip G. Popovich; 24. Cell
transplantation for spinal cord injury Nataliya Romanyuk, Pavla Jendelová
and Eva Syková; 25. Combining transplant-based and pharmacologic
interventions with behavioral training and exercise for recovery from
chronic spinal cord injury Marion Murray, Laura Krisa and John Houle; 26.
Chances and limits of locomotor training after damage to the central
nervous system Volker Dietz; 27. Temperature management and therapeutic
hypothermia for the treatment of spinal cord injury W. Dalton Dietrich; 28.
Spinal cord injury clinical trials 1990-2010 Wise Young; Index.