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Record Nr.

UNISA996202080003316

Titolo

Outcome of severe damage to the central nervous system

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Elsevier, 1975

ISBN

1-280-78351-6

9786613693907

0-470-72016-6

0-470-71784-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Ciba Foundation Symposium ; ; 34 (new ser.)

Disciplina

617/.1

Soggetti

Central nervous system - Wounds and injuries - Complications

Central nervous system - Diseases - Complications

Prognosis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Outcome of Severe Damage to the Central Nervous System; Contents; Opening remarks; Scale, scope and philosophy of the clinical problem; Discussion; Mechanisms of functional loss and recovery in spinal cord damage; Discussion; Signs of plasticity and reconnection in spinal cord damage; Discussion; Recovery of motor function after lesions in motor cortex of monkey; Discussion; Cerebral blood flow and metabolism; Discussion; Assessment of severe damage to the brain by multiregional measurements of cerebral blood flow; Discussion; Can one predict outcome of medical coma?; Discussion

Assessment of psychosocial outcome after severe head injury Discussion; Recovery of function after brain injury in man; Discussion; Psychiatric outcome of localized head injury in children; Discussion; Outcome of head trauma: age and post-traumatic seizures; Discussion; Acquired dyslexia: patterns of deficit and recovery; Fact and theory in recovery from the aphasias; Discussion of the two preceding papers; Early neurophysiological assessment after insult to the central nervous system; Discussion; Prognostic factors in stroke; Discussion

Development of a formal structure for clinical management decisions : a mathematical analysis Discussion; Prognosis after severe head injury;



Discussion; General discussion; Mechanisms of recovery; Recovery curves; Closing comments; Closing remarks; Index of contributors; Subject index