Textbook of Neural Repair and Rehabilitation

Part I. Terminology of Neurorehabilitation - Outcome Measurement and Diagnostic Technology: 1. Clinical trials in neurorehabilitation; 2. Understanding the mechanisms underlying recovery after stroke; 3. Genetics in neurorehabilitation; 4. Outcomes measurement: basic principles and applications in stroke rehabilitation; 5. Human voluntary motor control and dysfunction; 6. Assessments, interventions, and outcome measures for walking; 7. Clinical pathways; 8. Electromyography in neurorehabilitation; 9. Functional neuroimaging; Part II. Therapeutic Technology: 10. Evolving insights into motor learning and their implications for neurorehabilitation; 11. Balance training; 12. Functional electrical stimulation in neurorehabilitation; 13. Peripheral nerve stimulation; 14. Brain stimulation; 15. Assistive devices; 16. Wheelchair design and seating technology; 17. Rehabilitation robotics, orthotics, and prosthetics for the upper extremity; 18. Rehabilitation robotics, orthotics, and prosthetics: lower limb; 19. Virtual reality applications in neurorehabilitation; 20. Communication devices; 21. Requirements for valid clinical trials; 22. Spinal cord injury: mechanisms, cellular and molecular therapies, and human translation; 23. Motor neuroprosthetics; Part III. Organization of Rehabilitation Services: 24. Neurohabilitative interventions in the acute stage of diseases; 25. The rehabilitation team and the economics of neurological rehabilitation; Part IV. Symptom-Specific Neurorehabilitation - Sensory and Motor Dysfunctions: 26. Chronic pain; 27. Loss of somatic sensation; 28. Management of deforming spastic paresis; 29. Contemporary concepts in upper extremity rehabilitation; 30. Gait disorders and rehabilitation; 31. Balance function and dysfunction and the vestibular system; 32. Deconditioning and energy expenditure; Part V. Vegetative and Autonomic Dysfunctions: 33. Acute neurorehabilitation for disorders of consciousness; 34. Plasticity in the neural pathways for swallowing: role in rehabilitation of dysphagia; 35. Autonomic dysfunction; Part VI. Cognitive Rehabilitation: 36. Rehabilitation for aphasia; 37. Apraxia; 38. Unilateral neglect and anosognosia; 39. Memory dysfunction; 40. Neurorehabilitation of executive functions; 41. Rehabilitation of visual field impairment; Part VII. Disease-Specific Neurorehabilitation Systems: 42. Rehabilitation of dementia; 43. Traumatic brain injury; 44. Neurorehabilitation in epilepsy; 45. Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders; 46. Predicting activities after stroke; 47. Evidence-based benefit of rehabilitation after stroke; 48. Rehabilitation in spinal cord injury; 49. Multiple sclerosis; 50. Neuromuscular rehabilitation: diseases of the motor neuron, peripheral nerve, neuromuscular junction and the muscle; Index.