Neurobehavioral Recovery from Head Injury / Edition 1

by Harvey S. Levin, Jordan Grafman, Howard M. Eisenberg

Overview

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the very important clinical issue of recovery of function after head injury. It emphasizes recent advances in research on the outcome of head injury and provides a critical commentary on methodological problems. The use of clinical neuropsychological procedures, laboratory-based cognitive tasks, psychiatric interviewing and radiological techniques to assess the outcome of head injury is fully discussed. The list of contributors to this book is multidisciplinary and international. The volume will be of particular use to neurologists, neurosurgeons and clinical psychologists. With improvements in trauma care, the number of young people surviving head injury with varying degrees of brain damage has increased, so the question of their neurobehavioural recovery is timely.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195042870
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/17/1987
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	446
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.56(h) x 1.42(d)

Table of Contents

1. IntroductionPART I: Methodologic Issues in Clinicopathologic Correlation of Head Injury in Outcome Studies2. Input Variables: How Information from the Acute Injury can be Used to Characterize Groups of Patients for Studies of Outcome, Howard M. Eisenberg, Richard L. Weiner3. Regional Structure and Function in Head Injured Patients: Correlation of CT, MRI, PET, CBF, and Neuropsychological Assessment, T.W. Langfitt, et al4. Methodological Considerations Relevant to the Comparison of Recovery from Penetrating and Closed Head Injuries, Jordan Grafman, Andres SalazarPART II: Design, Management and Analysis of Neurobehavioral Outcome Studies5. Measuring Neuropsychological and Functional Recovery, D. Neil Brooks6. Problems and Prospects in the Determination of Head Injury Effects and Recovery in Behavioral Research, Sureyya Dikmen, Nancy Temkin7. Measurement of Differential Cognitive Deficits After Head Injury, Milton E. Strauss, Linda J. AllredPART III: Neuropsychological Assessment of Head Injured Patients8. Thoughts on the Application of Neuropsychological Tests, Arthur L. Benton9. Making Neuropsychological Assessment Relevant to Head Injury, Muriel D. Lezak10. Psychometric and Behavioral Evidence: Scope, Limitations, and Ecological Validity, Freda Newcombe11. Outcomes and Evidence in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Closed Head Injury, Leonard Diller, Yehuda Ben-Yishay12. Contribution of Frontal Lobe Injury to Cognitive Impairment After Closed Head Injury — Methods of Assessment and Recent Findings, Donald T. Stuss13. The Experimental Analysis of Cognitive Deficit After Head Injury: Perspectives from Other Neurologic Disorders and Nonhuman Animal Research, Marlene Oscar-BermanPART IV: Investigation of the Neurobehavioral Outcome of Head Injury: The Physician's Point of View14. The Role of Neurobehavioral Syndromes in the Rehabilitation and Outcome of Closed Head Injury, Michael P. Alexander15. Neurobehavioral Outcome: The Neurosurgeon's Perspective, Lawrence F. MarshallPART V: Psychiatric Sequelae of Head Injury: Conceptual and Methodologic Problems16. Psychiatric Aspects of Head Injury: Problem Areas and Suggested Guidelines for Research, George P. Prigatano17. Psychiatric and Psychosocial Disturbances in Head Injury, Igor Grant, Wayne Alves18. Minor Head Injury and the Postconcussional Syndrome: Methodological Issues in Outcome Studies, Harvey S. Levin, et alPART VI: Developmental Issues and Recovery from Head Injury in Children19. Age and Recovery from Head Injury in Children: Developmental Issues, Jack M. Fletcher, et alPART VII: Memory Disturbance After Head Injury: Recent Strategies for Research20. Closed Head Injury and Memory, Alan Baddeley, et al21. Consequences of Nonpenetrating and Penetrating Head Injury: Retrograde Amnesia, Posttraumatic Amnesia, and Lasting Effects on Cognition, Suzanne H. Corkin, et al22. Re-Orientation: Recovery from Post-Traumatic Amnesia or Retrograde Amnesia?, Herbert F.Crovitz23. Memory Experiments: A Strategy for Research, Endel TulvingPART VIII: Attention After Head Injury: Advances in Measurement Methods and Integration of Experimental Models24. Advances in the Assessment of Attention and Information Processing After Head Injury, Dorothy Gronwall25. Attention and Head Trauma, Henry A. Buchtel26. Electrophysiologic Methods for the Study of Attentional Deficits in Head Injury, Andrew C. Papanicolaou27. Selective Attention in Head Injury, Michael I. Posner28. Head Injury and Attention, A.H. Van Zomeren, W.H. BrouwerPART IX: Integrated Summary and Prospects for Future Research