Traumatic Brain Injury, Part I Handbook of Clinical Neurology Series

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Couverture de l’ouvrage Traumatic Brain Injury, Part I

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The Handbook of Clinical Neurology volume on traumatic brain injury (TBI) provides the reader with an updated review of emerging approaches to traumatic brain injury (TBI) research, clinical management and rehabilitation of the traumatic brain injury patient. Chapters in this volume range from epidemiology and pathological mechanisms of injury, and neuroprotection to long-term outcomes with a strong emphasis on current neurobiological approaches to describing the consequences and mechanisms of recovery from TBI. The book presents contemporary investigations on blast injury and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, making this state-of-the-art volume a must have for clinicians and researchers concerned with the clinical management, or investigation, of TBI.

Section 1 Risk and Predisposition 1. Epidemiology 2. Classification of traumatic brain injury: past, present and future 3. Genetic predictors of outcome following TBI

Section 2 Pathology and Mechanisms of Traumatic Brain Injury 4. The neuropathology of traumatic brain injury 5. Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Injury and Spontaneous Recovery 6. Injury biomechanics, neuropathology, and simplified physics of explosive blast and impact mild traumatic brain injury 7. Cellular biomechanics of central nervous system injury 8. Animal models of traumatic brain injury

Section 3 Special Considerations 9. Mild traumatic brain injury 10. Acute sports-related traumatic brain injury and repetitive concussion 11. Brain injury from explosive blast: description and clinical management 12. Surgical management of civilian gunshot wounds to the head 13. Acute Loss of Consciousness 14. Systemic manifestations of traumatic brain injury 15. Special Considerations in Infants and Children

Section 4 Current and Emerging Diagnostic Tools 16. Biomarkers 17. Current and future diagnostic tools for traumatic brain injury: CT, conventional MRI, and diffusion tensor imaging 18. Using fMRI and EEG to detect consciousness after severe brain injury 19. Resting Functional Imaging Tools: (MRS, SPECT, PET and PCT) 20. Advances in imaging explosive blast mild traumatic brain injury 21. Electrophysiological recordings in traumatic brain injury

Section 5 Management and Treatment 22. Neuroprotection for traumatic brain injury 23. The prehospital management of traumatic brain injury 24. Acute Management of Military-Related Injury (PHI & Blast) 25. Clinical Management of the Minimally Conscious State 26. Rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury 27. Long-Term Social Integration and Community Support 28. Recent developments in clinical trials for the treatment of traumatic brain injury

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Dr. Grafman has been the director of Brain Injury Research at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab ((SRALab)formally known as the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) since 2012 and is on faculty at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in the Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Neurology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center as well as the Department of Psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Before joining the SRALab, Dr. Grafman was briefly director of Traumatic Brain Injury Research at the Kessler Foundation in West Orange New Jersey. Prior to that appointment in 2011, Dr. Grafman was Chief of the Cognitive Neuroscience Section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, Maryland for many years. His investigation of brain function and behavior contributes to advances in medicine, rehabilitation, and psychology, and informs ethics, law, philosophy, and health policy. His study of the human prefrontal cortex and cognitive neuroplasticity incorporates neuroimaging and genetics, an approach that is expanding our knowledge of the functions of the human frontal lobes, as well as the effects of neurological disorders that impair frontal lobe brain function.
Andres M. Salazar, MD, is CEO, Scientific Director and cofounder of Oncovir, Inc., a pharmaceutical company developing the immunomodulator, Hiltonol® (Poly-ICLC). He is a retired US Army Colonel and formerly Professor of Neurology at USUHS. He was Director of the Vietnam Head Injury Study and Founder, Principal Investigator, and first Director of the Defense and Veterans Head Injury Program, an ongoing U.S. National Head Injury clinical management and research effort. His research background includes neurotraumatology, neurodegenerative diseases, multiple sclerosis (MS), AIDS, and Oncology. He has over 200 publications, several patents, and has conducted multiple clinical studies, in

Internationally renowned scientists describe cutting edge research on the neurobiological response to traumatic brain injury, including descriptions of potential biomarkers and indicators of potential targets for treatments to reduce the impact of the injury
Explores cellular and molecular mechanisms as well as genetic predictors of outcome
Offers coverage of various diagnostic tools – CT, MRI, DDTI, fMRI, EEG, resting functional imaging, and more
State-of-the-art traumatic brain injury management and treatment principles are presented for both civilian and military care