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Author:

Rao, Vani, 1958-

Title:

The traumatized brain : a family guide to understanding mood, memory, and behavior after brain injury / by Vani Rao, MBBS, MD, and Sandeep Vaishnavi, MD, PhD ; foreword by Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

201 p. ;

Subject:

Brain damage--Complications.
Brain damage--Rehabilitation.--Rehabilitation.
Head--Complications.--Complications.
Head--Rehabilitation.--Patients--Rehabilitation.

Other Authors:

Vaishnavi, Sandeep, 1973-
Rabins, Peter V, writer of preface.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

Brain structure, function, and recovery -- The inner workings of the brain -- The structure of the brain -- Types of traumatic brain injury -- Influences on recovery after traumatic brain injury -- Emotional problems caused by the traumatized brain -- Depression -- Anxiety -- Mania -- Apathy -- Behavioral problems caused by the traumatized brain -- Psychosis -- Aggression -- Impulsivity -- Sleep disturbances -- Cognitive problems caused by the traumatized brain -- Attention -- Memory -- Executive function -- Language -- Other common problems caused by the traumatized brain -- Headaches -- Seizures -- Vision -- Epilogue: finding the light at the end of the tunnel.

Series:

A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book

Indexed by:

BZ5U
LI5S

ISBN:

1421417952 : PAP
9781421417950 : PAP

LCCN:

2015002495

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