Outcome of severe damage to the central nervous system.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Conference Name:

Symposium on the Outcome of Severe Damage to the Central Nervous System (1974 : London, England)

Series:

Ciba Foundation symposium ; new ser. 34.

Ciba Foundation Symposium ; 34 (new ser.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Central nervous system--Wounds and injuries--Complications--Congresses.

Central nervous system.

Central nervous system--Diseases--Complications--Congresses.

Prognosis--Congresses.

Prognosis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1975.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9786613693907

9781280783517

1280783516

9780470720165

0470720166

9780470717844

047071784X

OCLC:

797918339