Levin: Mild Head Injury

Editors:

• Harvey S. Levin, Baylor College of Medicine,
• Howard M. Eisenberg, University of Texas Medical Branch, and
• Arthur L. Benton, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Contents:

I. History And Epidemiology

• 1. Historical Notes on the Postconcussion Syndrome, Arthur L. Benton
• 2. The Epidemiology of Mild Head Injury, Jess F. Kraus and Parivash Nourjah
• 3. Some International Comparisons, Bryan Jennett

II. Experimental Models and Neuropathology

• 4. Morphopathological Change Associated with Mild Head Injury, John T. Povlishock and Thomas H. Coburn
• 5. 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

• 6. Complications After Apparently Mild Head Injury and Strategies of Neurosurgical Management, Ralph G. Dacey, JR.
• 7. Mild Head Injury in Children, J.W. Snoek
• 8. Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Mild to Moderate Head Injury, Howard M. Eisenberg and Harvey S. Levin
• 9. Neurophysiological Assessment of Mild Head Injury, Rudolf Schoenhuber and Massimo Gentilini

IV. Neuropsychological Sequelae

• 10. Cumulative and persisting effects of Concussion on Attention and Cognition, Dorothy Gronwall
• 11. Assessment of Attention in Mild Head Injury, Massimo Gentilini, Paolo Nichelli, and Rudolf Schoenhuber
• 12. Recovery of Memory After Mild Head Injury: A Three-Center Study, Ronald M. Ruff, Harvey S. Levin, Steven Mattis, Walter M. High, JR., Lawrence F. Marshall, Howard M. Eisenberg, and Kamran Tabaddor
• 13. Neurobehavioral Outcome of Mild Head Injury in Children, Harvey S. Levin, Linda Ewing-Cobbs, and Jack M. Fletcher

V. Postconcussion Symptoms

• 14. Postconcussion Symptoms: Relationship to Acute Neurological Indices, Individual Differences, and Circumstances of Injury, William H. Rutherford
• 15. Neuropsychological Recovery: Relationship to Psychosocial Functioning and Postconcussional Complaints, Sureyya S. Dikmen, Nancy Temkin, and Gay Armsden

VI. Disability and Rehabilitation

• 16. Management of Disability and Rehabilitation Services After Mild Head Injury, Philip Wrightson
• 17. Mild Head Injury in Sports: Neuropsychological Sequelae and Recovery of Function, Jeffrey T. Barth, Wayne M. Alves, Thomas V. Ryan, Stephen N. Macciocchi, Rebecca W. Rimel, John A. Jane, and William E. Nelson
• 18. Neurosurgeon as Victim, Lawrence F. Marshall and Ronald M. Ruff

304 pp. 50 illus.
1989.
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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.

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