Head Injury

Dr Audrey Daisley, Dr Rachel Tams and Professor Udo Kischko are all based at The Oxford Centre for Enablement, an NHS Neurorehabilitation Unit in Oxford, which provides in and out patient neurorehabilitation, assessment and day care to people with acquired brain injury arising from head injury, stroke, and neurological illnesses.

• Preface and Foreword ; 1. Coping with head injury: introduction and overview ; 2. How the brain works and how it is damaged ; 3. Treatment and recovery after head injury ; 4. Changes in physical functioning ; 5. Changes in thinking skills ; 6. Changes in speech, language and communication ; 7. Changes in emotions and behaviour ; 8. Changes in sexual functioning ; 9. Family issues after head injury ; 10. Helping children cope with head injury in the family ; 11. The longer term ; Resources and further reading ; Information for younger children (aged 7-10) ; Information for young people (aged 11-15) ; Glossary and Index

...meets a need for those coping with head injury. A copy would not go amiss on the shelves of any neurorehabilitation unit, and it would in fact be a reasonable primer for health-care students needing a basic introduction to the subject.