Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. History and Epidemiology
  • Historical notes on the postconcussion syndrome / Arthur L. Benton
  • The epidemiology of mild head injury / Jess F. Kraus and Parivash Nourjah
  • Some international comparisons / Bryan Jennett
  • II. Experimental Models and Neuropathology
  • Morphopathological change associated with mild head injury / John T. Povlishock and Thomas H. Coburn
  • Neurochemical mechanisms of mild and moderate head injury : Implications for treatment / Ronald L. Hayes, Bruce G. Lyeth, and Larry W. Jenkins
  • III. Clinical Management, Neurophysiology, and Neuroimaging
  • Complications after apparently mild head injury and strategies of neurosurgical management / Ralph G. Dacey
  • Mild head injury in children / J.W. Snoek
  • Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in mild to moderate head injury / Howard M. Eisenberg and Harvey S. Levin
  • Neurophysiological assessment of mild head injury / Rudolf Schoenhuber and Massimo Gentilini
  • IV. Neuropsychological Sequelae
  • Cumulative and persisting effects of concussion on attention and cognition / Dorothy Gronwall
  • Assessment of attention in mild head injury / Massimo gentilini, Paolo Nichelli, and Rudolf Schoenhuber
  • Recovery of memory after mild head injury : A three-center study / Ronald M. Ruff [and others]
  • Neurobehavioral outcome of mild head injury in children / Harvey S. Levin, Linda Ewing-Cobbs, and Jack M. Fletcher
  • V. Postconcussion Symptoms
  • Postconcussion symptoms : Relationship to acute neurological indices, individual differences, and circumstances of injury / William H. Rutherford
  • Neuropsychological recovery : Relationship to psychosocial funtioning and postconcussional complaints / Sureyya S. Dikmen, Nancy Temkin, and Gay Armsden
  • VI. Disability and Rehabilitation
  • Management of disability and rehabilitation services after mild head injury / Philip Wrightson
  • Mild head injury in sports : Neuropsychological sequelae and recovery of function / Jeffrey T. Barth [and others]
  • Neurosurgeon as victim / Lawrence F. Marshal and Ronald M. Ruff.