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""This volume will repay the reader with a greatly enhanced understanding of the challenge facing head-injured patients when they try to return to society."" --The Lancet

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Author:   Harvey S. Levin (Professor of Neurosurgery, Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston) ,  Jordan Grafman (Clinical Neuropsychology Section, Medical Neurology Branch, Clinical Neuropsychology Section, Medical Neurology Branch, NINCDS) ,  Howard M. Eisenberg (Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas, Galveston)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.60cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 24.30cm
Weight:   0.934kg
ISBN:  

9780195042870

ISBN 10:   0195042875
Pages:   446
Publication Date:   03 December 1987
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction PART I: Methodologic Issues in Clinicopathologic Correlation of Head Injury in Outcome Studies 2: Howard M. Eisenberg, Richard L. Weiner: Input Variables: How Information from the Acute Injury can be Used to Characterize Groups of Patients for Studies of Outcome 3: T.W. Langfitt, et al: Regional Structure and Function in Head Injured Patients: Correlation of CT, MRI, PET, CBF, and Neuropsychological Assessment 4: Jordan Grafman, Andres Salazar: Methodological Considerations Relevant to the Comparison of Recovery from Penetrating and Closed Head Injuries PART II: Design, Management and Analysis of Neurobehavioral Outcome Studies 5: D. Neil Brooks: Measuring Neuropsychological and Functional Recovery 6: Sureyya Dikmen, Nancy Temkin: Problems and Prospects in the Determination of Head Injury Effects and Recovery in Behavioral Research 7: Milton E. Strauss, Linda J. Allred: Measurement of Differential Cognitive Deficits After Head Injury PART III: Neuropsychological Assessment of Head Injured Patients 8: Arthur L. Benton: Thoughts on the Application of Neuropsychological Tests 9: Muriel D. Lezak: Making Neuropsychological Assessment Relevant to Head Injury 10: Freda Newcombe: Psychometric and Behavioral Evidence: Scope, Limitations, and Ecological Validity 11: Leonard Diller, Yehuda Ben-Yishay: Outcomes and Evidence in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Closed Head Injury 12: Donald T. Stuss: Contribution of Frontal Lobe Injury to Cognitive Impairment After Closed Head Injury -- Methods of Assessment and Recent Findings 13: Marlene Oscar-Berman: The Experimental Analysis of Cognitive Deficit After Head Injury: Perspectives from Other Neurologic Disorders and Nonhuman Animal Research PART IV: Investigation of the Neurobehavioral Outcome of Head Injury: The Physician's Point of View 14: Michael P. Alexander: The Role of Neurobehavioral Syndromes in the Rehabilitation and Outcome of Closed Head Injury 15: Lawrence F. Marshall: Neurobehavioral Outcome: The Neurosurgeon's Perspective PART V: Psychiatric Sequelae of Head Injury: Conceptual and Methodologic Problems 16: George P. Prigatano: Psychiatric Aspects of Head Injury: Problem Areas and Suggested Guidelines for Research 17: Igor Grant, Wayne Alves: Psychiatric and Psychosocial Disturbances in Head Injury 18: Harvey S. Levin, et al: Minor Head Injury and the Postconcussional Syndrome: Methodological Issues in Outcome Studies PART VI: Developmental Issues and Recovery from Head Injury in Children 19: Jack M. Fletcher, et al: Age and Recovery from Head Injury in Children: Developmental Issues PART VII: Memory Disturbance After Head Injury: Recent Strategies for Research 20: Alan Baddeley, et al: Closed Head Injury and Memory 21: Suzanne H. Corkin, et al: Consequences of Nonpenetrating and Penetrating Head Injury: Retrograde Amnesia, Posttraumatic Amnesia, and Lasting Effects on Cognition 22: Herbert F.Crovitz: Re-Orientation: Recovery from Post-Traumatic Amnesia or Retrograde Amnesia? 23: Endel Tulving: Memory Experiments: A Strategy for Research PART VIII: Attention After Head Injury: Advances in Measurement Methods and Integration of Experimental Models 24: Dorothy Gronwall: Advances in the Assessment of Attention and Information Processing After Head Injury 25: Henry A. Buchtel: Attention and Head Trauma 26: Andrew C. Papanicolaou: Electrophysiologic Methods for the Study of Attentional Deficits in Head Injury 27: Michael I. Posner: Selective Attention in Head Injury 28: A.H. Van Zomeren, W.H. Brouwer: Head Injury and Attention PART IX: Integrated Summary and Prospects for Future Research

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This volume will repay the reader with a greatly enhanced understanding of the challenge facing head-injured patients when they try to return to society. * The Lancet *

This volume will repay the reader with a greatly enhanced understanding of the challenge facing head-injured patients when they try to return to society. --The Lancet A fine book. It presents the state of the art in the investigation of cognitive and neuropsychological disturbances from a variety of perspectives and should prove to be a useful resource to those conducting clinical research with this population. --Neurotrauma Medical Report This book integrates current knowledge on the pathophysiology of head injury with current methods of neuropsychological assessment. It provides an excellent review of the various methods of neuropsychological testing that are currently employed and the strengths and weaknesses of these methods in assessing different aspects of recovery from head injury. The text is readable, there are adequate graphics and illustrations, and the price is reasonable. For those interested in embarking on the study of neurobehavioral outcome from head injury, this book comprises a state-of-the-art review. --Journal of Neurosurgery This book is a 'must read.' . . . . Simply the best book on traumatic brain injury, recovery, treatment, and intervention that has been published to date. It has an outstanding array of authors . . . . Should be read from cover to cover. Fortunately, it is not only competent but enjoyable and, although at times demanding, pays proper respect to the complexity and importance of this timely topic of head injury. --Contemporary Psychology The book has a consistently high quality. There are very few books that deal with the behavioral and psychological as well as cogntive consequences of brain injury. This may be one tree in a small forest, but all trees should stand this tall. --American Journal of Psychiatry

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