Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury - part 7 pps

... 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 ... from sports-related brain injury. 460 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY has demonstrated that ownership of a helmet is not syn- onymous with use (Fullerton and Be...

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... the Rehabilitation Act of 1 973 (29 U.S.C. 72 3) to operate vocational pro- 552 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY capacities. Some families, in the face of such explicit com- parison (which they ... 586 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 c...

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... 376 – 377 apnea in sleep, 375 circadian rhythm sleep disorder, 376 – 377 clinical features of, 371 – 377 in fatigue, 371 – 372 in sleep disorders, 372 – 377 evaluation of, 371 – 378 in brain injury, 377 t, ... LY233053 ([1 ]- [2SR,4RS ]-4 -[ 1H-tetrazol-5-ylmethyl] piperidine-2-car- boxylic acid), and CP101,606 ([1S, 29 ]-1 -[ 4-hydroxyphe- nyl ]-2 -[ hydroxy-4-phe...

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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 o...

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... assessment of progress in rehabilitation. Laatsch et al. (19 97, 1999) found flow FIGURE 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 blood vessels, have proved immensely helpful in assessment of ex- tent of brain injury and in following the medical sequelae...

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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 ... “clinical sense” with re- 202 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY lower socioeconomic classes in their 30s. The principal cause of brain injury was motor vehi...

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... complain of headache or nausea or vomit a See Teasdale and Jennett 1 974 . TABLE 15–2. Different definitions of mild traumatic brain injury in the literature Study Definition of mild traumatic brain injury Gronwall ... 1989). 266 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY the significant factor predisposing to violence is the site of the lesion, particularly damage or dysf...

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... al. (19 97) 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 ... significant number of TBI survivors still experience fatigue after the first year of injury. In an out- come study of 67 brain- injured subjects interviewed 5 years after TBI,...

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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 ... 19 97. Used with permission of M.W. Johns. Copyright M.W. Johns 1991–19 97. 410 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY Convergence Insufficiency Convergence insufficiency (CI...

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... 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- ential reinforcer. ... 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 mech...

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