Download or read book Perceptually based Implicit Learning in Severe Closed head Injury Patients written by Heather M. Nissley and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Clinical and Neuropsychological Aspects of Closed Head Injury written by Dr J Richardson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all industrialised countries, closed head injuries are responsible for vast numbers of hospital admissions and days of work lost. For instance, about 120,000 patients are admitted to hospital in the United Kingdom each year with a diagnosis that reflects closed head injury. Such injuries are a major cause of deaths following accidents, especially those that involve children and young people, and they are also a major cause of handicap and morbidity among the survivors. This clinical condition is intrinsically a neurological one, but its proper evaluation demands an understanding of the associated psychology and psychopathology. At the same time, a major neurological condition with such a high level of incidence ought to be extremely informative about the functioning of the human brain and hence provide a major focus for neuropsychological investigation. In this book, the author seeks to integrate these two different perspectives by reviewing the clinical and neuropsychological aspects of closed head injury in a manner that is equally intelligible to researchers interested in the effects of brain damage upon human behaviour and to practitioners who are responsible for the assessment, management and rehabilitation of head-injured patients. This is the second edition of a book which was first published in 1990, and which has been extensively revised in the light of the subsequent research in the field. The book begins by considering the epidemiology, causes and structural neuropathology of closed head injury. It then considers the impact of closed head injury on memory, cognition, language, communication, personality and social behaviour. Finally it outlines the outcome, the mechanisms of recovery and the prospects for rehabilitation.

Download or read book Cognitive Rehabilitation of Closed Head Injured Patients written by Brenda B. Adamovich and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Responsiveness of Adults with Severe Closed Head Injury to Mediated Learning written by Jerrold Joseph Heinrich and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cognitive Perceptual and Motor Learning After Spontaneous Recovery from Severe Traumatic Closed Head Injury written by Marie Piskopos Ethier and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cognitive and Physical Recovery Trends in Severe Closed head Injury written by Diana Maria Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Explicit and Implicit Memory Function After Closed Head Injury written by Allyson Elaine Haut and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Inconsistent Attention in Chronic Survivors of Severe Closed Head Injury written by George M. Ringholz and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Language Deficits After Severe Closed Head Injury written by Stuart W. Ortego and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stimulus Modality and Verbal Learning in Patients with Moderate to Severe Closed Head Injury and Normal Subjects written by Fofi Constantinidou and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Longitudinal Study of Closed Head Injury written by Debbie S. Rai and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background: The hippocampus and corpus callosum have been shown to be vulnerable in head injury. Various neuroimaging modalities and quantitative measurement techniques have been employed to investigate pathological changes in these structures. Cognitive and behavioural deficiencies have also been well documented in head injury. Aims: The aim of this research project was to investigate structural changes in the hippocampus and corpus callosum. Two different quantitative methods were used to measure physical changes and neuropsychological assessment was performed to determine cognitive and behavioural deficit. It was also intended to investigate the relationship between structural change and neuropsychology at 1 and 6 months post injury. Method: Forty-seven patients with head injury (ranging from mild to severe) had undergone a battery of neuropsychological tests and an MRI scan at 1 and 6 months post injury. T1-weighted MRI scans were obtained and analysis of hippocampus and corpus callosum was performed using region-of-interest techniques and voxel-based morphometry which also included comparison to 18 healthy volunteers. The patients completed neuropsychological assessment at 1 and 6 months post injury and data obtained was analysed with respect to each assessment and with structural data to determine cognitive decline and correlation with neuroanatomy. Results: Voxel-based morphometry illustrated reduced whole scan signal differences between patients and controls and changes in patients between 1 and 6 months post injury. Reduced grey matter concentration was also found using voxel-based morphometry and segmented images between patients and controls. A number of neuropsychological aspects were related to injury severity and correlations with neuroanatomy were present. Voxel-based morphometry provided a greater number of associations than region-of-interest analysis. No longitudinal changes were found in the hippocampus or corpus callosum using region-of-interest methodology or voxel-based morphometry. Conclusions: Decreased grey matter concentration identified with voxel-based morphometry illustrated that structural deficit was present in the head injured patients and does not change between 1 and 6 months. Voxel-based morphometry appears more sensitive for detecting structural changes after head injury than region- of-interest methods. Although the majority of patients had suffered mild head injury, cognitive and neurobehavioural deficits were evidenced by a substantial number of patients reporting increased anxiety and depression levels. Also, the findings of relationships between reduced grey matter concentration and cognitive test scores are indicative of the effects of diffuse brain damage in the patient group.

Download or read book Sustained Attention Following Severe Closed Head Injury written by Wendy J. Loken and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Verbal Learning and Memory in Adults with Mild Moderate and Severe Closed Head Injury written by Paula Bergloff and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Effects of Divided Attention on Encoding and Retrieval in Severe Closed Head Injury Patients written by Heather M. Nissley and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Effect of Severe Closed Head Injury on Three Stages of Information Processing in chronic Patients written by Maureen E. Schmitter and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Naming Deficits After Severe Closed Head Injury written by Stuart W. Ortego and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Clinical and Neuropsychological Aspects of Closed Head Injury written by John T. E. Richardson and published by Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Incorporated. This book was released on 1990 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clinical problem of treating head injury patients is not one to be solved by a dramatic medical breakthrough, but one which must be tackled by a better appreciation of their condition from both the neurological and the psychological points of view. It is therefore not surprising that there is a growing interest in research on the effects of closed head injury. The purpose of this book is to review the clinical and neuropsychological aspects of cloed head injury in a manner which is intelligible to both clinicians and psychologists.