Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury (eBook, ePUB)

Current Research and Future Directions
Redaktion: Levin, Harvey; Chan, Raymond; Shum, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This timely book reports recent progress in research on traumatic brain injury (TBI) by leading investigators encompassing translational and clinical studies. The text covers epidemiology, pathophysiology, brain imaging, cognition, behavioral sequelae, and clinical trials of innovative treatments, including new approaches to rehabilitation. The range of TBI mechanisms represented in this cutting-edge book includes closed head trauma and blast-related injury, and the spectrum of TBI severity. Chapters offer a developmental perspective, including the effects of TBI on cognitive development in children and outcome studies in adults. Contributors from various countries provide a global perspective on this worldwide health problem. The editors have synthesized the contents in a concluding chapter. Researchers and clinicians will find this volume to be an informative, authoritative reference for current TBI research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199389636
• Artikelnr.: 40374930

Autorenporträt

Harvey S. Levin is Professor and Director of Research in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. He also serves as Director of the Center of Excellence for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) at the Michael E. De Bakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center. His research is concerned with closed head trauma in civilians and blast-related injury in veterans. David H. K. Shum is Dean of Research in the Health Group at Griffith University, Australia. Professor Shum has more than 20 years' experience studying the effects of brain injury on cognition and behavior in adults and children. Raymond C. K. Chan is Professor of Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Mental Health. He holds an honorary professorship at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Hong Kong.

Inhaltsangabe

* Table of Contents
* Contributors
* Acknowledgments
* Preface
* Harvey S. Levin, David H. K. Shum and Raymond C. K. Chan
* Part 1 Introduction
* 1. Recent Advances in Traumatic Brain Injury Research: Introduction
* Harvey S. Levin, David H. K. Shum and Raymond C. K. Chan
* 2. Traumatic Brain Injury: Some History and Epidemiology
* David L. McArthur
* 3. Traumatic Brain Injury Disease: Long Term Consequences of
Traumatic Brain Injury
* Brent E. Masel and Douglas S. DeWitt
* Part 2 Neuropsychological Functions
* 4. Attentional Problems after Traumatic Brain Injury
* Jia Huang, David H. K. Shum, Raymon C. K. Chan and Allana L. Canty
* 5. Memory Impairments after Traumatic Brain Injury
* Allana L. Canty, David H. K. Shum, Harvey S. Levin and Raymond C. K.
Chan
* 6. Executive Function Impairments after Traumatic Brain Injury
* Ya Wang, Raymond C. K. Chan and David H. K. Shum
* 7. High-Level Language in Traumatic Brain Injury: Promising Metrics
to Advance Brain Repair
* Sandra B. Chapman and Lori G. Cook
* 8. Disorders of Emotion and Social Cognition following Traumatic
Brain Injury
* Skye McDonald, Jacqueline Rushby, Michelle Kelly and Arielle de Sousa
* Part 3 Outcomes and Rehabilitation
* 9. Measuring Outcomes Using the International Classification of
Functioning and Health (ICF)
* Robyn L. Tate
* 10. Short and Long-term Outcomes in Survivors of Traumatic Brain
Injury
* Jennie Ponsford
* 11. Cognitive Rehabilitation following Traumatic Brain Injury
* Tom Manly, Jonathan J. Evans, Jessica E. Fish, Fergus Gracey and
Andrew Bateman
* 12. Community Adjustment and Re-engagement
* Tamara Ownsworth and Jennifer Fleming
* 13. The Neurobiological Basis of Pharmacological Approaches for
Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury
* Rashed Harun and Amy K. Wagner
* Part 4 Methodological and Technological Advances
* 14. Advanced Neuroimaging in Traumatic Brain Injury
* Elisabeth A. Wilde, Kareem W. Ayoub, Erin D. Bigler, Jill V. Hunter
and Harvey S. Levin
* Part 5 Special Populations
* 15. Children and Adolescents
* Vicki Anderson and Keith Owen Yeates
* 16. Traumatic Brain Injury in Older Adults: Does Age Matter?
* Glynda J. Kinsella, John Olver, Ben Ong, Eleanor Hammersley and
Bethan Plowright
* 17. Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
* Sarah A. Raskin, David W. Lovejoy, Michael C. Stevens, Marta
Zamroziewicz and Howard J. Oakes
* 18. Blast Related Traumatic Brian Injury: Pathophysiology,
Comorbidities and Neurobehavioural Outcomes
* Ralph G De Palma, Clifford J Buckley, James M. Ecklund, Gerald M.
Cross and William Gunnar
* Part 6 Future Opportunities and Challenges
* 19. Future Challenges
* Harvey S. Levin, David H. K. Shum and Raymond C. K. Chan