NHS Logo

Brain damage : causes, management and prognosis

Brain damage : causes, management and prognosis [E-Book] - 1 online resource. - Neuroscience Research Progress . - Neuroscience Research Progress. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


English.

9781620814154 1620814153 1620814072 9781620814079

2020685827


Brain damage.
Brain damage--Treatment.
Brain damage--Patients--Rehabilitation.
London Health Libraries Consortium Privacy notice and Membership terms and conditions