Rijeka: InTech, 2012. — 236 p. The present book "Brain Injury" is distinctive in its presentation and includes a wealth of updated information on many aspects in the field of brain injury. The Book is devoted to the pathogenesis of brain injury, concepts in cerebral blood flow and metabolism, investigative approaches and monitoring of brain injured, different protective...
Rijeka: Intech, 2012. — 534 p. Preface: Brain Injury – Pathogenesis, Monitoring, Recovery and Management. Current Understanding and Experimental Approaches to the Study of Repetitive Brain Injury. Traumatic Brain Injury and Inflammation: Emerging Role of Innate and Adaptive Immunity. Shared Genetic Effects among Measures of Cognitive Function and Leukoaraiosis. Compensatory...
Elsevier, 2015. — 458 p. — (Handbook of Clinical Neurology 127). — ISBN: 9780444528926 Epidemiology of traumatic brain injury Classification of traumatic brain injury: past, present, and future Genetic predictors of outcome following traumatic brain injury The neuropathology of traumatic brain injury Cellular and molecular mechanisms of injury and spontaneous recovery Injury...
Elsevier, 2015. — 364 p. — (Handbook of Clinical Neurology 128). — ISBN: 9780444635211. Predicting outcome after traumatic brain injury Movement disorders secondary to craniocerebral trauma Language impairments in traumatic brain injury: a window into complex cognitive performance Connecting clinical and experimental investigations of awareness in traumatic brain injury...
2nd ed. — Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2003. — 815 p. Traumatic Brain Injury: Rehabilitative Treatment and Case Management, Second Edition provides therapists, case managers and physicians with information about the longer-term issues faced by this population. Originally titled Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation, this new edition updates the clinical information and broadens the...
Fourth Edition. — CRC Press, 2018. — 785 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-4987-1029-9. In the last decade neuroscience has matured at a remarkable pace, shedding a far more exacting light on mechanisms of neurophysiology, pathophysiology of injury, neuroendocrinology, neuro-immunology, neuroplasticity, neuropharmacology and neurodegenerative processes. Individuals with acquired brain injury...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2018. — 1297 p. Neuroscience. Bioscience indications for chronic disease management and neuro medical interventions following traumatic brain injury. Loss of Axonal Integrity After TBI. Blood-Brain Barrier. Microglia. Cerebral inflammation is mediated by microglia. Microglial alterations following TBI. Inflammation and axonal damage. The dual action of...
Wien: Springer, 2004. — 126 p. Top level clinical and laboratory scientists present their most recent clinical and experimental findings and concepts. The well balanced contributions illustrate the enormous significance of the dialogue between both laboratory and clinic, ultimately for the benefit of the patients, and contribute to a better understanding of secondary brain...
New York: Springer, 1986. — 402 p. A distinction between primary and secondary brain damage of vari ous origin, particularly in acute lesions, such as head injury and ische mia is not entirely new. The concept is of practical significance, be cause it is the foremost intention of all clinical efforts to prevent, or at least attenuate the development of secondary sequelae....
Wien: Springer, 1993. — 171 p. Great progress has been made in the understanding and prevention of secondary brain damage from acute cerebral disorders, such as trauma and ischemia. Advances may be concerned in particular with better organization and logistics of preclinical emergency care, including rapid arrival of well-trained medical staff on the scene of an accident and of...
Routledge, 2018. — 343 p. — ISBN: 9781138903395 Introducing brain injury in the global context Considering communities and cross-cultural realities Explaining how the brain works Looking at the injured brain: trauma and disease Recognising and engaging with disorientation Recognising and engaging with memory problems Recognising and engaging with language problems Recognising...
London: Springer, 2014. — 197 p. This book provides an overview of attentional impairments in brain-damaged patients from both clinical and neuroscientific perspectives, and aims to offer a comprehensive, succinct treatment of these topics useful to both clinicians and scholars. A main focus of the book concerns left visual neglect, a dramatic but often overlooked consequence...
Informa Healthcare, 2008. — 464 p. The clinical management of patients with acute brain and spinal cord injury has evolved significantly with the advent of new diagnostic and therapeutic modalities. Acute Brain and Spinal Cord Injury presents the latest medical science and highlights controversies in the clinical management of patients with acute brain and spinal cord injuries....
Berkeley, USA: She Writes Press, 2017. — 220 p. – ISBN: 1631522469. When Deb Brandon discovered that cavernous angiomas-tangles of malformed blood vessels in her brain-were behind the terrifying symptoms she'd been experiencing, she underwent one brain surgery. And then another. And then another. And that was just the beginning. The book also includes an introduction by Connie...
Wien: Springer, 1999. — 68 p. Theory and Practice of Microdialysis — Prospect for Future Clinical Use Unbound Plasma Concentrations May Predict Neuroprotective Brain Concentrations: A Brain Microdialysis and Pharmacokinetic Study of Enadoline in Rats Intraoperative Enzyme-Amperometric Monitoring of Extracellular Glutamate Concentration with a Dialysis Electrode in Ischemic...
L.: Jessica Kingsley, 2003. - 225 p. At the age of 14, Lynsey Calderwood suffered a traumatic brain injury that left her physically unmarked but destroyed her memory. Thrust back into an apparently nonsensical world of which she had no recollection. Lynsey spiralled downwards into depression and eating disorders as she became socially ostracized. This is the story, in her own...
Wien: Springer, 1990. — 73 p. During the last decade a multitude of studies concerning the dynamic changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF), cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen (CMRO2), and intracranial pressure (ICP) in the acute phase after head injury have been published. These studies have been supplemented with studies of cerebral autoregulation, CO2 reactivity and barbiturate...
New York: Springer, 2018. — 231 p. This book offers an empowering approach to working with people with an acquired brain injury (ABI) based upon the views and perspectives of people with ABI themselves. Drawing upon Christine Durham's own ABI experience and Paul Ramcharan?s engagement in disability research over a quarter of a century, this volume gives voice to 36 participants...
Elsevier, 2020. — 194 p. — ISBN: 978-0-323-65384-8. This practical reference, edited by Drs. Blessen C. Eapen and David X. Cifu, covers the full spectrum of assessment, management, and rehabilitation after concussion. It includes best practices and considerations for numerous patient populations and their unique needs in an easy-to-read, concise format. Geared toward...
Elsevier, 2018. — 280 p. — ISBN: 978-0-323-54456-6. Covering the full spectrum of rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury, this practical reference by Drs. Blessen C. Eapen and David X. Cifu presents best practices and considerations for numerous patient populations and their unique needs. In an easy-to-read, concise format, it covers the key information you need to guide...
Washington: National Academies Press, 2011. — 445 p. This Institute of Medicine report was the result of a request by the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) Military Nutrition Division of the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM) to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to review the potential role of nutrition in improving the outcomes of traumatic brain...
Academic Press, 2018. — 470 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-813596-9. This book presents readers with comprehensive and cutting-edge information on molecular mechanisms, including the signal transduction processes associated with neurodegeneration and neuroprotection in ischemic, spinal cord, severe and mild brain injuries. The book also covers the molecular mechanisms of drugs used for...
Wolters Kluwer Health, 2014. — 360 p. Brain Injury: Applications from War and Terrorism is a single-authored book written by a world-class neuroradiologist with extensive experience in traumatic brain injury (TBI). It features six graphic-intense chapters depicting and expounding upon the complexity of TBI. Culled from nearly three decades of studying civilian TBI and five...
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2014. — 357 p. While the main focus of the book seems to be on case studies, the text is sufficiently readable to allow a relative novice in TBI (but an expert in MRI) to comprehend and move through at a good rate. The subject is admittedly horrific, but it is important and appreciated that the book deals with the realities of battlefield injuries...
Jessica Kingsley, 2008. — 159 p. Musical improvisation is an increasingly recognised rehabilitative therapy for people who have experienced traumatic brain injury initially thought to be 'unreachable' or 'non-responsive'. Music Therapy and Traumatic Brain Injury demonstrates how music therapy can be used to attend to the holistic, rather than purely functional, needs of people...
New York: Springer, 1993. — 455 p. The nature and consequences of brain injury Theories of recovery following brain injury Physical changes following brain injury Psychological consequences of brain injury Psychiatric changes following brain injury Assessment of the brain-injured adult Learning approaches following brain injury Management of the brain-injured patient in the...
Greenhaven Press, 2014. — 188 p. — (Perspectives on Diseases and Disorders). — ISBN: 978-0-7377-7311-8. There are more than 200,000 cases of traumatic brain injury in the United States every year. It is a major cause of death and disabilities. This guidebook provides essential information on Traumatic Brain Injury but also presents first-person narratives by people coping with...
Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Group, 2014. — 92 p. Two soccer players collide on the field. A soldier in Afghanistan is thrown to the ground during a bomb explosion. A teen has an accident while riding her bike — and she isn't wearing her helmet. Each of these incidents can produce a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Of the 1.7 million Americans officially diagnosed with TBI each...
InTech, 2012. — 293 p. This is a book that provides an insight into this very broad area of research, focusing on topics that deal with some of the main problems confronted by modern neurosciences, spanning through neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders, changes observed in drug addictions and sleep deprivation, as well as early assessment of brain injury for...
2nd edition. — CRC Press, 2008. — 586 p. — ISBN: 978-0849381386 Since the original publication of Traumatic Brain Injury: Methods for Clinical & Forensic Neuropsychiatric Assessment, enhanced clinical findings concerning traumatic brain injury have improved our ability to evaluate and treat individuals with TBI. Unfortunately, the dramatic rise in the occurrence of brain...
CRC Press, 2007 — 528 p. Since the original publication of Traumatic Brain Injury: Methods for Clinical & Forensic Neuropsychiatric Assessment, enhanced clinical findings concerning traumatic brain injury have improved our ability to evaluate and treat individuals with TBI. Unfortunately, the dramatic rise in the occurrence of brain injuries over the same time period demands...
CRC Press, 2015. — 584 p. The book provides physicians and psychologists with a scientifically based schema for the clinical evaluation of traumatic brain injury (TBI). The book assists physicians and psychologists in developing treatment plans for patients who have sustained TBIs and also guides those providing forensic analysis to lawyers, insurance bodies, workers’...
2nd edition. — Routledge, 2021. — 276 p. — (The Brain Injuries Series). — ISBN: 978-0-367-40367-6. This important book describes the biopsychosocial nature of persisting and complex headache presentations following mild brain trauma and offers a predominantly cognitive behavioral therapy program to guide patients toward better health and less pain. The book provides both a...
Springer Publishing Company, 2016. — 366 p. This is a clinically accessible reference guide to acquired brain injuries (ABIs) that provides medical and nonmedical healthcare professionals who work with patients in brain trauma and rehabilitation settings with easily understandable information about this population. It provides physicians, psychologists, social workers,...
New York: Academic Press, 2017. — 318 p. New Therapeutics for Traumatic Brain Injury: Prevention of Secondary Brain Damage and Enhancement of Repair and Regeneration explores traumatic brain injury (TBI), a major cause of death and disability throughout the world. The delayed nature of the secondary injury phase suggests that there is a therapeutic window for pharmacological...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. — 384 p. Rehabilitation For Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a state-of-the-science review of the effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions. Leading experts conduct evidence-based reviews of specific areas of brain injury rehabilitation summarizing what is known in each area, critiquing the methodoligical problems of studies in the...
Academic Press, 2019. — 428 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-812344-7. Mild traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI or Concussion) is an increasingly common public health issue in sports, military environments, and life in today’s active world. Despite a great deal of study and public attention to this disorder, knowledge about optimal diagnostic, prognostic, and treatment information remains lacking....
ITexLi, 2021. — 199 p. — ISBN: 1838819207 9781838819200 1838819339 9781838819330. This book covers the latest developments in the understanding and treatment of traumatic brain injury. With the complex topics, every clinician, scientist, and researcher will find this book invaluable in understanding the latest improvements and advances in the diagnosis and treatment of...
Springer Science+Business Media, New York, 2013, 169 p., ISBN: 1461441471, 1461441498 | Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has caught the ear of the general public in the last few years in the context of injuries seen both in athletes and the military. Despite TBI being situated as a critical problem in society for multiple decades, the underlying pathotrajectory of TBI has only...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2015. - 436 p. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains a significant source of death and permanent disability, contributing to nearly one-third of all injury related deaths in the United States and exacting a profound personal and economic toll. Despite the increased resources that have recently been brought to bear to improve our understanding of TBI, the...
CRC Press, 2015. — 366 p. — ISBN: 9781482228243 The Lefaivre Rainbow Effect is a groundbreaking treatment for those suffering from a traumatic brain injury (TBI). This strategy is different from most others because it is individually designed for each client and focuses on the cognitive retraining of the brain based on pre-injury lifestyle as well as the organic damage to the...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. - 480 p. 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...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 409 p. — ISBN: 9780195120264 This book integrates neuroscience research on neuroplasticity with clinical investigation of reorganization of function after brain injury, especially from the perspective of eventually translating the findings to rehabilitation. Historical foundationw in neuroplasticity research are presented to provide a...
Farmington Hills: Lucent, 2009. — 106 p. — (Diseases and Disorders). Each year, more than 1.5 million Americans sustain traumatic brain injuries, caused mostly by motor vehicle accidents, falls and similar mishaps, violence, and sports injuries. Such injuries can be as mild as a concussion or as severe as having a foreign object, such as a shard from a broken window, penetrate...
Wien: Springer, 1998. — 444 p. Proceedings of the Tenth International ICP Symposium, Williamsburg, Virginia, May 25–29, 1997 This volume contains the most recent works on intracranial pressure and neuromonitoring in brain injury selected from 300 abstracts submitted to the 10th International Symposium on Intracranial Pressure. It includes state of the art monitoring of the...
2nd edition. — CRC Press, 2012. — 854 p. — ISBN: 9780849380396 Focusing on a public health problem affecting millions of people of all ages, the second edition of Concussive Brain Trauma: Neurobehavioral Impairment and Maladaptation reflects Dr. Rolland S. Parker's more than 25 years of neuropsychological practice and research in traumatic brain injury and stress, and his prior...
2nd Edition. — Wiley, 2015. — 179 p. Fractures of the Facial Skeleton, Second Edition gives a clear, concise and practical overview of the management of maxillofacial injuries. This new edition has been fully updated to include recent developments and improvements in facial trauma management, with expanded sections on emergency and early treatment, soft tissue injuries and...
Academic Press, 2022. — 614 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-823036-7. Traumatic brain injury has a complex etiology and may arise as a consequence of physical abuse, violence, war, vehicle collisions, working in the construction industry, and sports. Cellular, Molecular, Physiological, and Behavioral Aspects of Traumatic Brain Injury will improve readers’ understanding of the detailed...
New York: Academic Press, 2022. — 1206 p. Diagnosis and Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury will improve readers’ understanding of the complexities of diagnosis and management of traumatic brain injuries. Featuring chapters on drug delivery, different treatments, and rehabilitation, this volume discusses in detail the impact early diagnosis and effective management have on the...
New York: Academic Press, 2022. — 1206 p. Diagnosis and Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury will improve readers’ understanding of the complexities of diagnosis and management of traumatic brain injuries. Featuring chapters on drug delivery, different treatments, and rehabilitation, this volume discusses in detail the impact early diagnosis and effective management has on the...
2nd edition. — Hodder Arnold, 2005. — 528 p. — ISBN: 9781444114423 Traumatic brain injury is one of the most difficult and challenging management problems facing clinicians. Research is increasingly clarifying the underlying physiological mechanisms involved in neuronal damage, offering the chance of better methods of diagnosis and treatment.This second edition of Head Injury...
Crabtree Publishing Company, 2018. — 51 p. Using evidence-based research and best practices, this informative title provides a thorough introduction to concussions. Content includes causes of concussion, physical, cognitive, and emotional, symptoms, treatments, and the recovery process. Case studies, personal accounts from people who have sustained concussions, and...
Nova Science Publishers, 2012. — 199 p. This book presents current research in the study of the causes, management and prognosis in brain damage including the implications for therapeutic intervention in the reorganisation of elementary functions (REF) after brain injury; a reorientation towards fibre tracts damage in amnesia; the use of alkaline comet assay to assess DNA...
American Psychiatric Publishing, 2005. — 792 p. — ISBN: 978-1585621057 This critically important textbook-the timely successor to the popular 1994 compilation by the same editors-fills that void, providing a wealth of scientific, yet easy-to-understand information on the complex neuropsychiatric sequelae of TBI. Written by recognized experts and designed to help treat patients...
Salubris Publishers, 2021. — 902 p. — ISBN: 978-81-945581-9-4. Handbook of Neurotrauma is a recurring educational series endeavored by the Neurotrauma Society of India (NTSI). This volume is Part II of this series on head injuries and deals with the various aspects of Cranial Trauma. Authored by the subject experts and stalwarts, this edition focusses on the epidemiology,...
New York: Springer, 2018. — 386 p. This volume explores current viewpoints and knowledge gaps in the field of traumatic brain injury (TBI). The chapters in this book cover topics ranging from development of in vitro and animal TBI models, to diagnostic imaging and disease monitoring in patients. Designing pre-clinical and clinical trials is also discussed. In Neuromethods...
Springer, 2012. — 392 p. This book covers the subject of TBI (traumatic brain injury) from A to Z in a very systematic and evidence-based fashion, formulated in such a way that it presents smooth and easy reading. The recurring paragraphs of Tips, tricks, and pitfalls are an ingenious way of highlighting the essentials. This book is relevant, both for the trainees in all...
Springer, 2012. — 392 p. This book covers the subject of TBI (traumatic brain injury) from A to Z in a very systematic and evidence-based fashion, formulated in such a way that it presents smooth and easy reading. The recurring paragraphs of Tips, tricks, and pitfalls are an ingenious way of highlighting the essentials. This book is relevant, both for the trainees in all...
New York: Humana Press, 2018. — 243 p. This volume focuses on procedures for the development and application of several research animal models and in vitro methods that allow researchers to gain insight into the underlying cellular, biochemical, and physiological mechanisms involved in traumatic and ischemic injury. The chapters in this book discuss topics, such as animal...
Springer, 2018. — 285 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-89477-5 This text addresses the current levels of evidence for management of a variety of critical parameters after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), as well as providing the reader with practical approaches to care based upon existing evidence. A broad range of topics is included, ranging from specific critical care approaches to...
2nd edition. — Springer, 2019. — 465 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-22435-6. This thoroughly revised and updated work covers numerous advances in traumatic brain injury diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, and pathophysiology. Since publication of the first edition in 2012, there has been greatly increased public awareness of the clinical consequences of even the mildest of head injuries,...
New York: Springer, 2012. — 345 p. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of disability worldwide. Each year 1.7 million new TBIs occur in the United States, and it is also considered a signature injury of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. Despite the relatively high incidence-within both civilian and military populations-the diagnosis and treatment, particularly of...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 848 p. — ISBN 978- 1- 107- 07395- 1. This book is a ground breaking text that offers neurologists, neuropsychologists, psychologists, and physiatrists the first comprehensive reconceptualization of concussive brain injury in 100 years. During the twentieth century, progress in understanding concussion was hamstrung by resistance to the...
Information Age Publishing, 2013. — 366 p. Acquired brain injury (Abi) describes damage to the brain that occurs after birth, caused by traumatic injury such as an accident or fall, or by non-traumatic cause such as substance abuse, stroke, or disease. Today's medical techniques are improving the survival rate for people of all ages diagnosed with Abi, and current trends in...
New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 246 p. Traumatic Brain Injury provides practical, neurological guidance to the diagnosis and management of patients who suffer from traumatic brain injury. Taking a “patient journey” in traumatic brain injury, from prehospital management to the emergency department, into rehabilitation and finally reemergence in the community, it demonstrates...
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2015. — 647 p. This book explores the recent advances in the techniques and platforms used in biomarker research that have revolutionized the way we study, diagnose, and treat brain injury conditions. The contributors describe different biomarker studies pertaining to brain injury and other neurological disorders and analyze the different models and...
London: Routledge, 2018. — 155 p. Whilst preparing for his travel adventures into a world he had yet to explore, Christopher Yeoh was involved in a road traffic accident and experienced something few others would be "privileged" to witness. Eight days in a coma, more than a year in and out of hospital and a gradual re-introduction to the world of work. A Different Perspective...
Springer, 2014. — 170 p. The main purpose of this book is to present emerging neuroimaging data in order to define the role of primary and secondary structural and hemodynamic disturbances in different phases of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and to analyze the potential of diffusion tensor MRI, tractography and CT perfusion imaging in evaluating the dynamics of TBI. The authors...
3rd edition. — Demos Medical Publishing, 2022. — 1891 p. — ISBN: 9780826143044. This revised and greatly expanded Third Edition of Brain Injury Medicine continues its reputation as the key core textbook in the field, bringing together evidence-based medicine and years of collective author clinical experience in a clear and comprehensive guide for brain injury professionals....
Demos Medical Publishing, 2007. — 1312 p. Comprehensive guide to all aspects of the management issues involved in caring for the person with brain injury - from early diagnosis and evaluation through the post-acute period and rehabilitation. It is the definitive core text needed by all practitioners in this area, including physiatrists, neurologists, psychologists, nurses, and...
New York: DemosMedical, 2016. — 608 p. Now completely revised and updated, Manual of Traumatic Brain Injury: Assessment and Management, Second Edition is a comprehensive evidence-based guide to brain injury diagnosis, treatment, and recovery, delivered in a succinct format designed for targeted access to essential content. This concise text, featuring internationally known...
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