Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury - part 5 pdf

... (1997) re- ported the results of a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study of the effects of 0. 25 mg/kg methylphen- idate on measures of attention in 19 TBI subjects of mixed injury severity. ... 2 .5 mg of bromocriptine to 31 healthy human sub- jects and then administered several neurocognitive tasks, including a spatial WM task similar to that used by Luci- 358...

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... aggression, but ago- nists 5- HT 1A , 5- HT 1B and 5- HT 2 all reduced offensive aggression (Muehlencamp et al. 19 95) . It has been re- ported that deleting the 5- HT 1B gene increases aggres- sion (Hen ... al. 19 75) . Concentrations of CSF 5- hydroxyindoleacetic acid ( 5- HIAA) are correlated with the concentration of 5- HIAA in the frontal lobe (Knott et al. 1989; Stanley et...

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... ranges of the length of loss of conscious- ness (from none to 60 minutes) and the GCS scores (from 15 FIGURE 1–11. Percentage of fractures by brain lesion type. 8 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY mately ... occurrence of clusters of micro- glia in the white matter of patients dying as a result of brain injury, and Pilz (1980), who described the occur- rence...

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... changes in traumatic brain injury: relationship to sensory perceptual function. Brain Res Bull 38 :54 5 54 9, 19 95 54. Yount R, Raschke KA, Biru M, et al: Traumatic brain injury and atrophy of the cingulate ... 2002 55 . Zhang L, Ravdin LD, Relkin N, et al: Increased diffusion in the brain of professional boxers: a preclinical sign of trau- matic brain injury? AJNR...

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... neuropsychia- tric evaluation and treatment of the patient with trau- matic brain injury (TBI). Role of the Neuropsychologist In the traumatically brain- injured population, the neu- ropsychologist most often ... independent of injury severity. Ellenberg et al. (1996) found that the proportion of 1 6- or 2 5- year-olds still in PTA was lower than that of 40-year-olds (Cox...

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... after brain injury. Headache associated with brain or neck injury usu- ally is short-lived; when it persists for months to years af- ter the event, it is termed chronic. Awareness of this phe- nomenon ... Epworth Sleepiness Scale.” Sleep 14 :54 0 54 5, 1991. Revised 1997. Used with permission of M.W. Johns. Copyright M.W. Johns 1991–1997. 410 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN IN...

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... blood -brain barrier dis- ruption, and derangements in homeostasis are some addi- tional effects of intoxication at the time of brain injury. Upregulation of N-methyl- D-aspartate and downregula- tion ... prevented (Kolakowsky-Hayner et al. 1999). 458 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY the sport as it is in American football, the aggressive nature of play makes the lik...

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... the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 723) to operate vocational pro- 55 2 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY capacities. Some families, in the face of such explicit com- parison (which they ... 58 6 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY preciation of one’s situation and the risks and benefits of op- tions available, and 4) rational decision making. Task-specific...

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... patient—as most consult- ing physicians soon learn, one must speak of the patient at-a-given-moment-in-time, or in particu- lar circumstances, rather than as a fixed set of mechanized routines ... on Disability and Re- habilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education. 670 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY results using availability of nurses’ attention as the differ- enti...

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