Synopses & Reviews
Despite extensive documentation of postconcussion symptoms, the sequelae of mild head injury have not been fully appreciated until recent years. This book provides the first comprehensive discussion of current advances in the understanding, treatment, and management of mild head injury. In a lucid fashion, the contributors discuss neurosurgical strategies and neurobehavioral outcome in adults and children, neuroimaging and neurophysiological methods of investigation, experimental models, sports injuries, and psychosocial and epidemiological aspects. Innovative programs to mitigate disability after mild head injury are presented by the physicians and psychologists who developed them, and the relationship between psychosocial consequences and postconcussional complaints and neuropsychological sequelae is discussed. Up-to-date and comprehensive, this book will be invaluable to clinicians and investigators in neurology, neurosurgery, neuropsychology, and rehabilitation medicine.
Table of Contents
PART I: History and Epidemiology 1. Historical Notes on the Postconcussion Syndrome, A.L. Benton
2. The Epidemiology of Mild Head Injury, J.F. Kraus and P. Nourjah
3. Some International Comparisons, B. Jennett
PART II: Experimental Models and Neuropathology
4. Morphopathological Change Associated with Mild Head Injury, J.T. Povlishock and T.H. Coburn
5. Neurochemical Mechanisms of Mild and Moderate Head Injury: Implications for Treatment, R.L. Hayes, et al.
PART III: Clinical Management, Neurophysiology and Neuroimaging
6. Complications After Apparently Mild Head Injury and Strategies of Neurosurgical Management, R.G. Dacey
7. Mild Head Injury in Children, J.W. Snoek
8. Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients with Mild Head Injury, H.M. Eisenberg and H.S. Levin
9. Neurophysiologic Assessment of Mild Head Injury, R. Schoenhuber and M. Gentilini
PART IV: Neuropsychological Sequelae
10. Cumulative and Persisting Effects of Concussion on Attention and Cognition, D. Gronwall
11. Assessment of Attention in Mild Head Injury, M. Gentilini, et al.
12. Recovery of Memory After Mild Head Injury: A Three Center Study, R.M. Ruff, et al.
13. Neurobehavioral Outcome of Mild Head Injury in Children, H.S. Levin, et al.
14. Postconcussion Symptoms: Relationship to Acute Neurologic Indices, Individual Differences and Circumstances of Injury, W.H. Rutherford
15. Relationship of Psychosocial Functioning and Postconcussional Complaints to Neuropsychological Recovery, S.S. Dikmen, N. Temkin, and G. Armsden
15. Relationship of Psychosocial Functioning and Postconcussional Complaints to Neuropsychological Recovery, S.S. Dikmen, et al.
16. Management of Disability and Rehabilitation Services After Mild Head Injury, P. Wrightson
17. Mild Head Injury in Sports: Neuropsychological Sequelae and Recovery of Function, J.T. Barth, W. Alves, T.V. Ryan, S.N. Macciocchi, R. Rimel, J.A. Jane, and W. Nelson
17. Mild Head Injury in Sports: Neuropsychological Sequelae and Recovery of Function, J.T. Barth, et al.