Evans: Injured Brains Of Medical Minds

Editor:

• Randolph W. Evans, M.D., University of Texas Hospital at Houston, Houston, TX

Contents:

Head Trauma

• 1. Epidemiology of Brain Injury, Jess F. Kraus and David L. McArthur
• 2. The History of cerebral Trauma, F. Clifford Rose
• 3. Non-Invasive Neuroimaging in Closed Head Trauma, Harold W. Prow, James W. Cole, Joel Yeakley, Pedro J. Diaz-Marchan, and L. Anne Hayman
• 4. Neuropathology of Brain Injury, D.I. Graham and Tracy K. McIntosh
• 5. The Postconcussion Syndrome and the Sequelae of Mild Head Injury, Randolph W. Evans
• 6. Post-Traumatic Cranial Neuropathies, James R. Keane and Robert W. Baloh
• 7. Post-Traumatic Epilepsy, L. James Willmore
• 8. Traumatic Intracranial Hemorrhage, James G. Lowe and Bruce E. Northrup
• 9. Neurovascular Trauma, Anil Nanda
• 10. Sports and Head Injuries, Richard S. Polin, Wayne M. Alves, and John A. Jane, Sr.
• 11. Medical Complications of Head Injury, Howard H. Kaufman, Gregory A. Timberlake, and Joseph Voelker
• 12. Neurobehavioral Outcome of Head Trauma, Daniel X. Capruso and Harvey S. Levin
• 13. Neuropsychological Testing After Traumatic Brain Injury, George P. Prigatano
• 14. Cognitive Rehabilitation, James F. Malec

Spinal Trauma

• 15. Imaging After Spine Trauma, Warren A. Stringer and Bruce J. Andersen
• 16. Spinal Cord Injury, David S. Baskin
• 17. Rehabilitation Treatment of Complications of Spinal Cord Injury, William H. Donovan
• 18. Sports Neck and Back Injuries, Andrew G. Chenelle, Richard S. Polin, Wayne Alves, and John A. Jane, Sr.
• 19. Evaluation and Treatment of Low Back Pain, James F. Howard, Jr.
• 20. Post-Traumatic Cervical and Lumbar Zygapophyseal Joint Pain, Nikolai Bogduk, Susan M. Lord, and Anthony C. Schwarzer
• 21. Plexus Injuries, Asa J. Wilbourn

Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injuries

• 22. Occupational and Use Mononeuropathies, Richard Rosenbaum
• 23. Electrodiagnostic Studies in the Evaluation of Peripheral Injuries, Gareth J. Parry
• 24. Surgery of the Injured Peripheral Nerve and Brachial Plexus, H. Bruce Hamilton and David G. Kline

Post-Traumatic Pain Syndromes

• 25. Whiplash Injuries, Randolph W. Evans
• 26. Myofascial Pain Syndromes, Steven B. Inbody
• 27. Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy and Causalgia, Robert J. Schwartzman

Environmental Trauma

• 28. High-Altitude Physiology and Medicine, John R. Sutton
• 29. Neurological Injury from Undersea Diving, Hugh D. Greer and E. Wayne Massey
• 30. Lightning, Electricity, and Magnetism, Bernard M. Patten and Brian D. Loftus
• 31. Neurology of Microgravity and Space Travel, Mavis D. Fujii and Bernard M. Patten

Post-Traumatic Sequelae

• 32. Movement Disorders: Post-Traumatic Syndromes, Christopher G. Goetz and Eric J. Pappert
• 33. Psychiatric Aspects of the Neurology of Trauma, Harold Merskey
• 34. Post-Traumatic Infections of the Central Nervous System, Steven J. Spindel and Richard L. Harris
• 35. Iatrogenic Traumas: Transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Neuropathy Induced by Hemorrhage, Bernard M. Patten
• 36. Does Trauma Cause or Worsen Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Multiple Sclerosis?, Bernard M. Patten

Medicolegal Aspects

• 37. The Physician as Expert Witness, H. Richard Beresford
• 38. The Determination of Competency in the Brain-Injured Person, H. Richard Beresford
• 39. Pain and Tort Law, H. Richard Beresford

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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