Outcome of severe damage to the central nervous system

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Elsevier, 1975
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (366 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 617/.1
• Soggetto topico: Central nervous system - Wounds and injuries - Complications; Central nervous system - Diseases - Complications; Prognosis
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Outcome of severe damage to the central nervous system
• ISBN: 1-280-78351-6; 9786613693907; 0-470-72016-6; 0-470-71784-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996202080003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; new ser. 34.