Robert P. Granacher Jr., Daryl B. Lund

Traumatic Brain Injury (eBook, PDF)

Methods for Clinical and Forensic Neuropsychiatric Assessment,Third Edition

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The number of traumatic head injuries that occur on a yearly basis has risen to more than three million, producing considerable morbidity and death. This text provides physicians and psychologists with a neuropsychiatric schema for the evaluation of a patient who has sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI). It assists clinicians in developing a treatment plan and provides data for forensic neuropsychiatric evaluations. The methods in this book can be used to evaluate and treat any neuropsychiatric disorder when accompanied by appropriate laboratory studies and treatments specific to the pathology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 597
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466594814
• Artikelnr.: 42369329

Autorenporträt

Robert P. Granacher Jr., MD, MBA, is a clinical professor of psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexignton. He also practices privately as a treating neuropsychiatrist and as a forensic neuropsychiatrist. Dr. Granacher obtained his MD from the University of Kentucky, Lexington. He later served as a resident and fellow at Harvard University and the Massachusetts General Hospital and other Harvard University teaching hospitals in Boston. He specializes in the neuropsychiatric treatment and evaluation of traumatic brain injury, perinatal birth injury, toxic brain injury, and other complex neurobehavioral disorders. Dr. Granacher is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a member of the American Neuropsychiatric Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Traumatic Brain Injury.
Neuropsychiatric and Psychiatric Symptoms after Traumatic Brain Injury.
Taking the Neuropsychiatric History after Traumatic Brain Injury.
Performing the Neuropsychiatric Mental Status and Neurological Examinations
after Traumatic Brain Injury. Use of Neuroimaging in the Neuropsychiatric
Assessment of Traumatic Brain Injury. Standardized Neurocognitive
Assessment of Traumatic Brain Injury. Behavioral Assessment Following
Traumatic Brain Injury. Neuropsychiatric Examination Database and Treatment
Planning. Forensic Examinations of Traumatic Brain Injury: Distinctions
from Examinations for Treatment. Causation, Damages, Impairments,
Disability, Outcomes, and Forensics of TBI Examinations. Neurobehavioral
Analysis of Traumatic Brain Injury Forensic Data.