Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury - part 10 pps

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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 ... Force 1988). 510 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY The role of drugs other than alcohol is not well docu- mented because often specific testing and history taking fo...

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... and modali- ties for the more effective diagnosis, measurement of degree of injury, post -injury monitoring and prognostic assessment of brain injury for acute, subacute, and later phases of care; ... the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 723) to operate vocational pro- 552 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY capacities. Some families, in the face of such explic...

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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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... body. Note. 99m Tc -HMPAO=technetium-99m-hexamethylpropyleneamine oxime; 123 I-IMP=iodine-123 N-isopropyl-p-iodoamphetamine; 201 Tl= thallium-201 . 103 Appendix 5–1 Summary of quantitative magnetic ... 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 of...

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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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... I Psychopharmacology in Individuals With Traumatic Brain Injury. ” The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation 13:24–39, 1998. a P < 0.05. b P<0 .10. 268 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY FIGURE 14–2. The ... 1989). 266 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY the significant factor predisposing to violence is the site of the lesion, particularly damage or dysfunct...

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... (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. ... motivational loss in DDMs. Loss of awareness of im- pairment, another symptom of prefrontal cortical dam- age, is predictive of return to work and rehabilitation po- ten...

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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 ... reported. In a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study comparing a 1 0- mg dose of zolpidem with a 1 0- mg dose of zaleplon given 5, 4, 3, and 2 hours before awaken...

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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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