Rehabilitation for Traumatic Brain Injury

Rehabilitation For Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a state-of-the-science review of the effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions. Leading experts conduct evidence-based reviews of specific areas of brain injury rehabilitation summarizing what is known in each area, critiquing the methodological problems of studies in the area, and then outlining new directions for research. The book begins with a review of the history of rehabilitation for TBI from World War I until the present. The second section of the book examines the rehabilitation of specific cognitive impairments in awareness, memory, executive functioning, communication, and emotion and behavior. The third section investigates special topics in rehabilitation of persons with TBI including substance abuse, interventions for caregivers, and vocational rehabilitation. The fourth section of the book covers rehabilitation with specific populations: children, older adults, and persons from diverse cultures. The final section examines topics in medical rehabilitation including treatment of spasticity, minimally conscious patients, and the contribution of neuroimaging to rehabilitation.

Section. Part 1: An Overview of Rehabilitation and Its Effectiveness. 1: History of Rehabilitation for Traumatic Brain Injury, Corwin Boake, Leonard Dillar: , 2: Effectiveness of Programs of Rehabilitation Following TBI, Walter M. High, Jr.: , Section. Part 2: Rehabilitation of Specific Cognitive Impairments. 3: Rehabilitation of Impaired Awareness, Mark Sherer: , 4: External Aids: Expanding our Understanding of the Most Widely Used Memory Rehabilitation Technique, McKay Moore Sohlberg: , 5: Rehabilitation of Executive Function Impairments after Traumatic Brain Injury, Keith D. Cicerone: , 6: Social Communication Interventions for Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury, Margaret A. Struchen: , 7: The Treatment of Emotional and Motivational Disorders after Traumatic Brain Injury, George Prigatano: , Section. Part 3: Treatment of Other Factors Impacting Outcome. 8: Substance Abuse and Traumatic Brain Injury: State of the Science, John D. Corrigan: , 9: Interventions for Caregivers Following Traumatic Brain Injury: Where We Are and Where We are Going, Angelle M. Sander: , 10: Vocational Rehabilitation, James F. Malec: , Section. Part 4: Rehabilitation with Specific Populations. 11: Mark Ylvisaker: Rehabilitation of Children with Cognitive, Behavioral, Communication, and Academic Disabilities after Traumatic Brain Injury, 12: Felicia C. Goldstein: Rehabilitation of Older Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury, 13: Jay M. Uomoto: Multicultural Perspectives in Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Section. Part 5: Medical Interventions. 14: Pharmacologic Management of Spastic Hypertonia in Traumatic Brain Injury, Gerard Francisco: , 15: Rehabilitation of Patients with Disorders of Consciousness, Joseph T. Giancino: , 16: Neuroimaging and Rehabilitation, Harvey S. Levin and Randall S. Scheibel:

Neuropsychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, speech pathologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists