Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord Injury

Preface; Part I. Traumatic Brain Injury: 1. Current evaluation of TBI epidemiology in an ageing society with improved preventative measures Peter L. Reilly; 2. Neurotrauma: an emerging epidemic in low and middle income countries G. K. Prusty, G. Gururaj and K. K. Dey; 3. Blast induced traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder Ankit I. Mehta, Gerald A. Grant and Lawrence F. Marshall; 4. Psychological effects of mild traumatic brain injury: their nature and treatment Jennie Ponsford; 5. Developments of neuroimaging techniques to diagnose and visualize white matter damage Virginia F. J. Newcombe and David K. Menon; 6. New advances in monitoring the injured brain metabolism David M. Benglis, Jr, Brett Trimble and A. Ross Bullock; 7. Potential use and limitations of microdialysis for monitoring of neurochemical changes after TBI Lars Hillered and Per Enblad; 8. Metabolic and therapeutic differences in pediatric and adult TBI: implications for clinical care and therapeutic hypothermia Michael J. Bell and Patrick M. Kochanek; 9. Utility of biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis of traumatic brain injury Kevin K. W. Wang, Linda Papa and Ronald L. Hayes; 10. Animal models of mild and severe TBI: what have we learned in the past 30 years? Jenna M. Ziebell, Frances Corrigan and Robert Vink; 11. Pediatric brain trauma: what do age-appropriate animal models teach us about the age-at-injury? Ramesh Raghupathi and Jimmy W. Huh; 12. The complexity of traumatic axonal injury Kathryn E. Saatman; 13. Cerebral inflammation after traumatic injury: regulation of secondary damage, repair or both? Bridgette D. Semple and M. Cristina Morganti-Kossmann; 14. Controversial findings on the role of NMDA receptors in traumatic brain injury Esther Shohami and Anat Biegon; 15. Plasticity and recovery of the injured brain Dorothy A. Kozlowski and Theresa A. Jones; 16. Design and analysis of clinical trials in TBI Bob Roozenbeek and Andrew Maas; 17. Future perspectives for the treatment of traumatic brain injury patients: decompressive craniectomy, hypothermia and erythropoietin Alastair D. Nichol, Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld and D. James Cooper; Part II. Traumatic Spinal Injury: 18. Global epidemiology of traumatic spinal cord injury Julio C. Furlan and Charles H. Tator; 19. Classification and surgical stabilization of the injured spine Ricky Rasschaert and Thomas Kossmann; 20. Spinal cord injury: pathophysiology and prospect of decompressive surgical treatment Jefferson R. Wilson and Michael G. Fehlings; 21. Modeling the injured spinal cord to match the human condition Jacqueline C. Bresnahan and Michael S. Beattie; 22. Myelin inhibitors of neurite outgrowth in spinal cord injury Michael F. Azari and Steven Petratos; 23. Controversies on the role of inflammation in the injured spinal cord John C. Gensel and Phillip G. Popovich; 24. Cell transplantation for spinal cord injury Nataliya Romanyuk, Pavla Jendelova and Eva Sykova; 25. Combining transplant-based and pharmacologic interventions with behavioral training and exercise for recovery from chronic spinal cord injury Marion Murray, Laura Krisa and John Houle; 26. Chances and limits of locomotor training after damage to the central nervous system Volker Dietz; 27. Temperature management and therapeutic hypothermia for the treatment of spinal cord injury W. Dalton Dietrich; 28. Spinal cord injury clinical trials 1990-2010 Wise Young; Index.