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Brain damage : causes, management and prognosis /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Nova Biomedical, Nova Science Publishers, Inc.,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Neuroscience Research Progress.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DAMAGE; Contents ; Preface ; Reorganization of Elementary Functions (REF) after Brain Injury: Implications for the Therapeutic Interventions and Prognosis of Brain Injured Patients Suffering Cognitive Impairments ; Abstract ; Introduction; Conceptualisations of Posttraumatic Functional Recovery ; Functional Localization and Recovery ; Mechanisms of Posttraumatic Functional Recovery ; The REF-Model ; Elementary Functions ; Algorithmic Strategies ; Reorganization of Elementary Functions (REF) ; Algorithmic Modules.
- Behavioural and Conscious Flexibility in the Normal and Brain Injured Individual Implications of the REF-Model for Posttraumatic Rehabilitative Training ; Generalization of Institutionalised Training to Reallife Situations; Utilization of Advanced Technology in Neurorehabilitation; Training Aimed at Developing AMs ; Implications of the REF-Model for the Prognosis Regarding Posttraumatic Cognitive Performance and Rehabilitation ; Performance and Rehabilitation ; Brain Reserve and Cognitive Reserve ; Localization and Recovery of Cognitive Functions
- Rehabilitation and Reconceptualisation.
- ConclusionAcknowledgment ; References ; The Splitting of the Brain: A Reorientation towards Fiber Tracts Damage in Amnesia ; Abstract; Introduction; Fiber -Behavior Interactions with a Focus on Conscious Memory ; Memory
- Systems and Divisions ; Memory and Time ; Memory and Content; Memory Disorders ; Fiber Systems Relevant for Conscious Memory Processing ; Association Fibers with Yet Unclear Contribution to Conscious Mnemonic Processing ; Association Fibers with (Likely) Functions in Memory ; Striatal Fibers ; Commissural Fibers ; Thalamic Fibers (Peduncles) ; The Capsula Interna.
- Other Cortico-Subcortical Fiber Bundles Related to Memory Processing Conditions Affecting the Integrity of the Brain's White Matter ; Conclusion ; References ; Molecular Determinants of Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury in Developing Brain and Potential Strategies for Neuroprotection ; Abstract ; Abbreviations ; Introduction; Pathophysiology of Neonatal Brain Injury ; Spectrum of Cell Death in Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury; Role of Mitochondria in Apoptosis and Necrosis; Excitotoxicity and Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury.
- Apoptosis as the Principle Mechanism of Hypoxic- Ischemic Neuronal Death Sex-Specific Activation of Cell Death Signaling Pathways ; Anti-Apoptotic X-Linked IAP (XIAP) and Neuroprotection against HI Brain Injury ; Excitatory Synaptic Function; Neuronal Pentraxins ; Neuronal Pentraxins Interact with the AMPA-Type Glutamate Receptors ; NP1 Gene Silencing Is Neuroprotective ; Conclusion ; Acknowledgments ; References ; Comet Assay as a Useful Tool to Assess Brain Damage ; Abstract ; 1. Introduction ; 2. DNA Damage ; 3. Comet Assay Technique ; 4. Methodology of the Comet Assay.