Outcome of Severe Damage to the Central Nervous System -- Contents -- Opening remarks -- Scale, scope and philosophy of the clinical problem -- Discussion -- Mechanisms of functional loss and recovery in spinal cord damage -- Discussion -- Signs of plasticity and reconnection in spinal cord damage -- Discussion -- Recovery of motor function after lesions in motor cortex of monkey -- Discussion -- Cerebral blood flow and metabolism -- Discussion -- Assessment of severe damage to the brain by multiregional measurements of cerebral blood flow -- Discussion -- Can one predict outcome of medical coma? -- Discussion -- Assessment of psychosocial outcome after severe head injury -- Discussion -- Recovery of function after brain injury in man -- Discussion -- Psychiatric outcome of localized head injury in children -- Discussion -- Outcome of head trauma: age and post-traumatic seizures -- Discussion -- Acquired dyslexia: patterns of deficit and recovery -- Fact and theory in recovery from the aphasias -- Discussion of the two preceding papers -- Early neurophysiological assessment after insult to the central nervous system -- Discussion -- Prognostic factors in stroke -- Discussion -- Development of a formal structure for clinical management decisions : a mathematical analysis -- Discussion -- Prognosis after severe head injury -- Discussion -- General discussion -- Mechanisms of recovery -- Recovery curves -- Closing comments -- Closing remarks -- Index of contributors -- Subject index.