Contents -- Color Plates -- Preface -- Foreword -- Contributors -- I. PERSPECTIVES ON REHABILITATIVE CARE AND RESEARCH -- 1. Clinical Continuum of Care and Natural History -- 2. Brain Injury Rehabilitation: Past, Present, and Future? -- 3. International Perspectives on TBI Rehabilitation -- 4. Training and Certification of Care Providers for Persons Sustaining TBI -- 5. Conducting Research in TBI: Current Concepts and Issues -- II. EPIDEMIOLOGY, PREVENTION, NEUROPATHOLOGY, AND NEURAL RECOVERY -- 6. The Epidemiology of TBI: Implications for Public Health -- 7. Primary Prevention -- 8. TBI: Pathobiology -- 9. Concepts of CNS Plasticity and Their Implications for Understanding Recovery After Brain Damage -- 10. Advances in Innovative Therapies to Enhance Neural Recovery -- III. NEUROIMAGING AND NEURODIAGNOSTIC TESTING -- 11. Static Neuroimaging in the Evaluation of TBI -- 12. Functional Neuroimaging of TBI -- 13. Electrophysiologic Assessment Techniques: Evoked Potentials and Electroencephalography -- IV. PROGNOSIS AND OUTCOME -- 14. Prognosis After Severe TBI: A Practical, Evidence-Based Approach -- 15. Neuroimaging Correlates of Functional Outcome -- 16. Functional Assessment in TBI Rehabilitation -- 17. Life Expectancy -- V. ACUTE CARE -- 18. TBI: Pathology, Pathophysiology, Acute Care and Surgical Management, Critical Care Principles, and Outcomes -- 19. Assessment, Early Rehabilitation Intervention, and Tertiary Prevention -- VI. REHABILITATIVE CARE AND TREATMENT OF SPECIFIC POPULATIONS -- 20. TBI: A Pediatric Perspective -- 21. The Older Adult -- 22. Mild TBI -- 23 Post-Concussive Disorder -- 24. Sport-Related Concussion -- 25. Assessment and Rehabilitative Management of Individuals with Disorders of Consciousness -- VII. NEUROLOGIC PROBLEMS -- 26. Post-Traumatic Seizures and Epilepsy -- 27. Movement Disorders After TBI.

28. Balance and Dizziness -- 29. Evaluating and Treating Visual Dysfunction -- 30. Cranial Nerve Disorders -- 31. Fatigue: Assessment and Treatment -- 32. Sleep Disturbances: Epidemiology, Assessment, and Treatment -- 33. Diagnosis and Management of Late Intracranial Complications of TBI -- VIII. NEUROMUSCULOSKELETAL PROBLEMS -- 34. Complications Associated with Immobility After TBI -- 35. Assessing and Treating Muscle Overactivity in the Upper Motoneuron Syndrome -- IX. MEDICAL MANAGEMENT ISSUES -- 36. Gastrointestinal and Nutritional Issues -- 37. Sexuality, Reproduction, and Neuroendocrine Disorders Following TBI -- 38. Post-Traumatic Pain Disorders: Medical Assessment and Management -- 39. Psychological Approaches to Comprehensive Pain Assessment and Management Following TBI -- 40. Neurorehabilitation Nursing of Persons with TBI: From Injury to Recovery -- X. COGNITIVE AND BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS -- 41. Cognitive Rehabilitation -- 42. Cognitive Impairments After TBI -- 43. Neuropsychological Assessment and Treatment of TBI -- 44. Principles of Behavioral Analysis and Modification -- 45. Neuropsychiatric Aspects of TBI -- XI. SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND SWALLOWING PROBLEMS -- 46. Assessment and Treatment of Speech and Language Disorders in TBI -- 47. Evaluation and Treatment of Swallowing Problems After TBI -- 48. Cognitive-Communication Deficits Following TBI -- XII. MOTOR RECOVERY, FUNCTIONAL MOBILITY, AND ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING -- 49. Neuroscientific Basis for Occupational and Physical Therapy Interventions -- 50. Therapy Interventions for Mobility Impairments and Motor Skill Acquisition After TBI -- 51. Therapy for Activities of Daily Living: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives -- XIII. NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY AND ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS -- 52. Pharmacotherapy of Neuropsychiatric Disturbances -- 53. Pharmacotherapy of Cognitive Impairment.

54. Neuropharmacology: A Rehabilitation Perspective -- 55. Nutraceuticals -- 56. Traditional Chinese Medicine Theory in the Mechanism and Treatment of TBI -- 57. Complementary and Alternative Medicine -- XIV. PSYCHOSOCIAL AND VOCATIONAL ISSUES -- 58. Community Reentry Issues and Long-Term Care -- 59. The Treatment of Substance Abuse in Persons with TBI -- 60. A Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Family Members of Persons with TBI -- 61. Return to Work Following TBI -- XV. MEDICOLEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES -- 62. Medicolegal Aspects of TBI -- 63. Ethical Issues in Clinicolegal Practice -- 64. Assessment of Response Bias in Clinical and Forensic Evaluations of Impairment Following TBI -- 65. Decision-Making Capacity After TBI: Clinical Assessment and Ethical Implications -- 66. Life Care Planning After TBI: Clinical and Forensic Issues -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.