Main description:

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.

Contents:

Table of Contents ; Contributors ; Acknowledgments ; Preface ; Harvey S. Levin, David H. K. Shum & Raymond C. K. Chan ; Part 1 Introduction ; 1. Recent Advances in Traumatic Brain Injury Research: Introduction ; Harvey S. Levin, David H. K. Shum & 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 & Douglas S. DeWitt ; Part 2 Neuropsychological Functions ; 4. Attentional Problems after Traumatic Brain Injury ; Jia Huang, David H. K. Shum, Raymon C. K. Chan & Allana L. Canty ; 5. Memory Impairments after Traumatic Brain Injury ; Allana L. Canty, David H. K. Shum, Harvey S. Levin & Raymond C. K. Chan ; 6. Executive Function Impairments after Traumatic Brain Injury ; Ya Wang, Raymond C. K. Chan & 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 & 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 & Andrew Bateman ; 12. Community Adjustment and Re-engagement ; Tamara Ownsworth & Jennifer Fleming ; 13. The Neurobiological Basis of Pharmacological Approaches for Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury ; Rashed Harun & 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 & Harvey S. Levin ; Part 5 Special Populations ; 15. Children and Adolescents ; Vicki Anderson & Keith Owen Yeates ; 16. Traumatic Brain Injury in Older Adults: Does Age Matter? ; Glynda J. Kinsella, John Olver, Ben Ong, Eleanor Hammersley & Bethan Plowright ; 17. Mild Traumatic Brain Injury ; Sarah A. Raskin, David W. Lovejoy, Michael C. Stevens, Marta Zamroziewicz & 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 & William Gunnar ; Part 6 Future Opportunities and Challenges ; 19. Future Challenges ; Harvey S. Levin, David H. K. Shum & Raymond C. K. Chan