Neurobehavioral Consequences of Closed Head Injury"The first extensive critical review of the neurobehavioral sequelae of closed head injury ... the book's strengths include breadth of coverage, stringent attention to methodological issues, and objectivity of critical analyses ... clearly written, concise, well-organized." --Journal of Clinical Neuropsychology. "Well-conceived and well-executed. ... Belongs on the shelf of every practicing neurosurgeon, neurologist, psychologist, and psychiatrist." --The New England Journal of Medicine |
Contents
PATHOPHYSIOLOGIC MECHANISMS | 3 |
Pathology of closed head injury | 11 |
Assessment of severity of head injury | 33 |
Delayed complications of closed head injury | 44 |
EPIDEMIOLOGY | 49 |
OUTCOME AND SOCIAL RECOVERY | 63 |
ANTEROGRADE AND RETROGRADE AMNESIA | 73 |
Behavioral manifestations of posttraumatic amnesia | 79 |
LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS | 140 |
PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS | 162 |
PSYCHIATRIC CONSEQUENCES | 172 |
Neurotic sequelae | 180 |
Summary | 187 |
Mechanisms of closed head injury in children | 193 |
Social and psychiatric effects of closed head injury in children | 204 |
SOME DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH | 223 |
Duration of posttraumatic amnesia in relation to quality | 86 |
Summary | 98 |
MEMORY FUNCTION | 99 |
COGNITIVE EFFECTS | 123 |
Memory functions | 227 |
APPENDIX A FOLLOWUP INTERVIEW | 254 |
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acute admission adults anterograde amnesia aphasia aphasic assessment behavioral Benton brain damage brain injury brain stem cerebral clinical closed head injury cognitive coma duration Coma Scale score concussion consciousness control group contusion CT scan defects diffuse injury disorder disturbance duration of coma duration of posttraumatic echolalia effects epidural hematoma evidence findings focal followup fracture frequently function Glasgow Coma Scale Glasgow Outcome Scale Gronwall Grossman head injury patients head trauma hospital impairment initial injury in children intracranial hematoma intracranial pressure Jennett Klonoff language left hemisphere Levin long-term mass lesion memory deficit mild closed head months after injury motor nerve Neurol neuropsychological Neurosurg normal outcome persistent persistent vegetative postconcussional postinjury preinjury psychiatric recall recognition memory rehabilitation reported Reproduced with permission residual response retrieval retrograde amnesia right hemisphere Russell sequelae serial severe closed head severe head injury skull speech studies subdural hematoma symptoms temporal lobe verbal visual