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Overview
As soldiers and combat veterans have returned from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been identified as the "signature injury" of those wars. This new edition of Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury has been thoroughly revised and updated from the 2005 first edition to reflect the exponential expansion of research and clinical data amassed in the intervening years. Each chapter was written and reviewed by the foremost authorities in neuropsychiatry, neurology, rehabilitation medicine, and the other specialties who assess, diagnose, and treat these patients.
This textbook addresses epidemiology and pathophysiology; neuropsychiatric disorders; neuropsychiatric symptomatologies; special populations and issues; and treatment. Many of the foremost scholars and clinicians who contributed to the previous edition are back with revisions of their chapters, and the volume also features five new chapters on such timely and critical topics as posttraumatic stress disorder, TBI in the context of war, and epidemiology in military and civilian populations.
Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury has been crafted to be both comprehensive and readable and to serve as a primary resource for clinicians' understanding, assessment, and treatment of patients -- and their families -- who suffer from TBI.
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From The Critics
Reviewer: Steven T. Herron, MD(University of Arizona Health Sciences Center)Description: Written with a primary emphasis on neuropsychiatric aspects of traumatic brain injury (TBI), this collaborative work combines the most recent research on issues surrounding these devastating events and their long-term consequences with clinically solid recommendations for working with this patient population.
Purpose: This book was compiled as an update to a previous version, Neuropsychiatry of Traumatic Brain Injury (1994), although the reincarnation incorporates much of the advanced knowledge gained in the area of TBI in the last 10 years.
Audience: Geared toward clinicians who work primarily in the field of brain injured patients, this book is intended for psychiatrists, neurologists, psychologists, occupational and speech therapists, and any other individuals who are in a position to assist TBI patients.
Features: Meant as a reference, this book is not created for a beginning to end read. More specifically, readers are likely to refer to one or a group of chapters of primary interest to them. The book is separated into seven sections, dealing mainly with the identification, assessment, treatment, and prevention of brain injury. It contains numerous tables, guides, references, and an entire chapter of various imaging studies which enlighten even the most experienced reader.
Assessment: Although I am unfamiliar with the previous version of this book, I can only imagine the vast revisions required to bring it up-to-date in an ever-changing and remarkably challenging area such as brain injured patients. Psychiatrists may find the chapters on the psychiatric manifestations of brain injured patients particularly useful, and the addition of topics such as aggression in this population impart practical wisdom for even the most general practitioner. This is a valuable addition to any clinician's reference library.
4 Stars! from Doody
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Meet the Author
Jonathan M. Silver, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York.
Thomas W. McAllister, M.D., is Millennium Professor and Vice Chairman for Neuroscience Research, Department of Psychiatry, Section of Neuropsychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Stuart C. Yudofsky, M.D., is D.C. and Irene Ellwood Professor and Chairman, Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas.
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Table of Contents
Foreword. Preface. Part I: Epidemiology and Pathophysiology. Epidemiology. Neuropathology. Genetics factors. Neuropsychiatric assessment. Structural imaging. Functional imaging. Electrophysiological assessment. Neuropsychological assessment. Part II: Neuropsychiatric Disorders. Delirium and posttraumatic confusion. Mood disorders. Psychotic disorders. Posttraumatic stress disorder. Personality change. Aggressive disorders. Mild brain injury. Posttraumatic epilepsy. Part III: Neuropsychiatric Symptomatologies. Cognitive changes. Disorders of diminished motivation. Awareness of deficits. Sleep disturbance and fatigue. Headaches. Dizziness, imbalance, and vestibular dysfunction. Vision problems. Chronic pain. Sexual dysfunction. Part IV: Special Populations and Issues. Traumatic brain injury in the context of war. Sports injuries. Children and adolescents. Elderly. Alcohol and drug disorders. Part V: Treatment. The family system. Systems of care. Social aspects. Clinical legal issues. Psychopharmacology. Psychotherapy. Cognitive rehabilitation. Positive behavioral interventions. Complementary and integrative treatments. Index.
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