Brain Injury and Recovery

Theoretical and Controversial Issues

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

AvC. Robert Almli,Stanley Finger,T.E. LeVere,Donald G. Stein,C. Robert Almli,T. E. Levere

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Nevertheless, we were concerned about the relative paucity of attempts to evaluate the data provided by new technologies in more than a narrow context or to present new theories or reexamine time-honored ideas in the light of new findings.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-01-30
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt568 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor362
FörlagSpringer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN9781461282563

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1 Toward a Definition of Recovery of Function.- 2 Neural System Imbalances and the Consequence of Large Brain Injuries.- 3 Bases of Inductions of Recoveries and Protections from Amnesias.- 4 Neural Spare Capacity and the Concept of Diaschisis: Functional and Evolutionary Models.- 5 Kurt Goldstein and Recovery of Function.- 6 Assumptions about the Brain and Its Recovery from Damage.- 7 Mass Action and Equipotentiality Reconsidered.- 8 Margaret Kennard and Her “Principle” in Historical Perspective.- 9 Infant Brain Injury: The Benefit of Relocation and the Cost of Crowding.- 10 Arguments against Redundant Brain Structures.- 11 Another Look at Vicariation.- 12 Hughlings Jackson’s Theory of Localization and Compensation.- 13 The Parcellation Theory and Alterations in Brain Circuitry after Injury.- 14 Trophic Hypothesis of Neuronal Cell Death and Survival.- 15 Sensory Cortical Reorganization following Peripheral Nerve Injury.- 16 Is Dendritic Proliferation of Surviving Neurons a Compensatory Response to Loss of Neighbors in the Aging Brain?.- 17 Practical and Theoretical lssues in the Use of Fetal Brain Tissue Transplants to Promote Recovery from Brain Injury.- 18 Functional Electrical Stimulation and Its Application for the Rehabilitation of Neurologically Injured Individuals.- 19 Recovery of Language Disorders: Homologous Contralateral or Connected Ipsilateral Compensation?.- 20 Sensory Substitution and Recovery from “Brain Damage”.- 21 Emotion and Motivation in Recovery and Adaptation after Brain Damage.- 22 Recovery of Function: Sources of Controversy.