Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury - part 7 pps

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... assessment of progressin rehabilitation. Laatsch et al. (19 97, 1999) found flowFIGURE 6 7. Chronic presentation of traumatic brain injury. A 52-year-old man had a high-impact closed head injury ... neuroanatomy of the skull, brain tissue, and bloodvessels, have proved immensely helpful in assessment of ex-tent of brain injury and in following the medical sequelae of traumatic brain injury (TBI), ... conditions. There are few con-trolled studies of the use of functional brain imaging forassessment and treatment of TBI patients. Many studies 74 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY tive agnosia, and...

... neuropsychia-tric evaluation and treatment of the patient with trau-matic brain injury (TBI).Role of the NeuropsychologistIn the traumatically brain- injured population, the neu-ropsychologist most often ... “clinical sense” with re-202 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY lower socioeconomic classes in their 30s. The principalcause of brain injury was motor vehicle accidents. Themajority of patients (68%) ... by a failure of amnestic pro-cesses” (Mandleberg 1 975 ). Thus, PTA overlaps with146 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY 89.2% specificity for mild TBI versus no injury, and alsooffers a positive...

... 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 ... 19 97. Used with permission of M.W. Johns. Copyright M.W. Johns 1991–19 97. 410 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY Convergence InsufficiencyConvergence insufficiency (CI) is a binocular vision ver-gence ... gel” Topical tid–qid438 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY connections. Frontal injury may result in various behav-ioral abnormalities. Inferomedial frontal injury may pro-duce disinhibited and...