Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord Injury - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Contributors

pp ix-xii

Preface

pp xiii-xiv

Section 1 - Traumatic Brain Injury

pp 1-215

1 - Current evaluation of TBI epidemiologyin an ageing society with improved preventive measures

pp 1-16

2 - Neurotrauma:an emerging epidemic in low- and middle-income countries

pp 17-29

3 - Blast-inducedtraumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder

pp 30-42

4 - Psychological effects of mild traumatic brain injury: their nature and treatment

pp 43-53

5 - Developments of neuroimagingtechniques to diagnose and visualize white matter damage

pp 54-66

6 - New advances in monitoring the injuredbrain metabolism

pp 67-81

7 - Potential use and limitations of microdialysisfor monitoring of neurochemical changes after TBI

pp 82-91

8 - Metabolic and therapeutic differences in pediatric and adult TBI: implications for clinical care and therapeutic hypothermia

pp 92-102

9 - Utility of biomarkersfor diagnosis and prognosis of traumatic brain injury

pp 103-113

10 - Animal models of mild and severe TBI: what have we learned in the past 30 years?

pp 114-125

11 - Pediatric brain trauma: what do age-appropriate animal models teach us about the age-at-injury effect?

pp 126-137

12 - The complexity of traumatic axonal injury

pp 138-154

13 - Cerebral inflammation after traumatic injury: regulation of secondary damage, repair or both?

pp 155-168

14 - Controversial findings on the role of NMDA receptors in traumatic brain injury

pp 169-179

15 - Plasticity and recovery of the injured brain

pp 180-191

16 - Design and analysis of clinical trialsin TBI

pp 192-204

17 - Future perspectives for the treatment of traumatic brain injury patients: decompressive craniectomy, hypothermia and erythropoietin

pp 205-215

Section 2 - Traumatic Spinal Injury

pp 216-333

18 - Global epidemiologyof traumatic spinal cord injury

pp 216-228

19 - Classification and surgical stabilization of the injured spine

pp 229-241

20 - Spinal cord injury: pathophysiology and prospect of decompressive surgical treatment

pp 242-251

21 - Modeling the injured spinal cord to match the human condition

pp 252-263