Traumatic Brain Injury and Neuropsychological Impairment

1 The Hidden Epidemic.- 2 Neuroanatomy and Organization from a Behavioral Viewpoint.- 3 Principles of Neurobehavioral Functioning.- 4 Trauma and Brain Damage.- 5 Overview: Neurobehavioral Consequences of Brain Damage.- 6 Consciousness, Orientation, Attention, and Arousal.- 7 Integrated Sensorimotor Functions and Body Image.- 8 Neurophysiological, Humoral, and Visceral Functions.- 9 Intellectual Functioning.- 10 Memory: Short- and Long-Term.- 11 Efficiency and Control.- 12 Communications Problems-Aphasia.- 13 Cerebral Personality Disorders and Frontal Lobe Syndromes.- 14 Adaptability, Independence, and Daily Functioning.- 15 Anxiety, Stress, and Psychodynamic Reactions.- 16 Expressive Deficits: Inability to Describe Impairment.- 17 Environmental Neurotoxins.- 18 Recovery from Brain Damage.- 19 General Principles of Children's Brain Damage.- 20 Principles of the Wide-Range Neuropsychological Examination.- 21 Some Assessment Procedures.- 22 The Integrated Neuropsychological Report.- 23 Therapeutic Considerations.- References.- Appendix 1 Postaccident Intake Protocols.- Appendix 2 Some Sensorimotor Assessment Procedures.- Appendix 3 Neuropsychological Use of the Rorschach Inkblot Test: Stress-Related Response.- Appendix 4 Treatment of the Sequelae of Head Trauma Arthur Greenspan, M.D..