TBI Library

One of the most frustrating shortcomings on the web for me, is the poor access to medical literature. While we in the legal profession have had the ability to find almost any legal authority electronically for two decades, the medical community lags way behind in comparable resources. This is especially true on the web, where while medline http://www.healthgate.com/ and pubmed data bases exist, they have only abstracts and these do not work as well as we would expect.

I have engaged in a determined search to find the leading authoritative treatises in the field of brain injury, but have had to do so the old fashioned way: through the use of books, networking and librarians. I wish I could give you a series of URL’s to point you to where you need to go, but I can’t. Thus, I have tried to provide an alternative, a guide to literature and online sources.

I have taken an issue oriented approach to categorizing this literature. The categories (click on highlighted text for info) I have used are:

• Required Reading;

• Coma and Catastrophic Brain Injury;

• Loss of Consciousness;

• Neuropathology;

• Neuropsychology;

• Symptomatology; and

• Advocacy.

Books by Title

• Muriel Lezak, Neuropsychological Assessment, 3rd, Oxford, 1995.

• Gronwall and Wrightson, Mild Head Injury, Oxford, 1999.

• Levin, Mild Head Injury, Oxford, 1989.

• Graham and Lantos, Greenfield’s Neuropathology, 6th Edition, ©Arnold, 1997.

• Narayan, Wilberger & Povlishock, Neurotrauma, ©McGraw-Hill, 1996.

• Baloh and Halmagyi, Disorders of the Vestibular System, Oxford, 1996.

• Levin, Catastrophic Brain Injury, Oxford, 1996.

• Evans, Injured Brains of Medical Minds, Oxford, 1997.

• Loring, INS Dictionary of Neuropsychology, Oxford, 1999.

• Evans, Prognosis of Neurological Disorders, Oxford, 1992.

• Broman, Traumatic Head Injury in Children, Oxford.

• Levitan, The Neuron, Oxford.

NEXT: Required Reading.

Understanding Subtle Brain Injury

The concussions that disable, are almost always more symptomatic at 24 hours, than at the 2-4 hour time frame when injured persons are evaluated in the emergency room. Brain injury symptoms escalate over the first 24 hours, because brain injury involves a cascade of events. It is critical that if you are still symptomatic the day after your injury, go back to the same Emergency Room, don’t wait for a doctors appointment. It is critical that the Emergency Room personnel see that the symptoms still persist or have gotten worse.

View Our Video Series on Concussions