Title: Traumatic head injury in children /
Authors: Broman, Sarah H.; Michel, Mary Ellen.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Child; Infant; Brain Injuries; Brain-damaged children; Brain Wounds and injuries Complications
Abstract: Head trauma in children is a major public health problem. It is a leading cause of death, and it can result in a spectrum of difficulties involving cognition, academic achievement, and social interaction. Children are evolving organisms for whom a static conceptualization of outcome may cloud the effects of traumatic brain injury. This important book explores sources of unexplained variability in outcome by developmental stage. For clinicians, the volume will provide easy access into the mainstream of research on traumatic brain injury in children, its pathophysiology, treatment, and outcome. For scientists specializing in cognition and development, and for those in the basic neurosciences, the studies of traumatic brain injury discussed in this book offer a unique opportunity to relate brain structure to patterns of behavior.
Contents: 1. Variability in Outcomes after Traumatic Brain Injury in Children: A Developmental Perspective / Jack M. Fletcher, Linda Ewing-Cobbs, David J. Francis and Harvey S. Levin -- 2. Epidemiological Features of Brain Injury in Children: Occurrence, Children at Risk, Causes and Manner of Injury, Severity, and Outcomes / Jess F. Kraus -- 3. Pathophysiological Responses of the Child's Brain Following Trauma / Derek A. Bruce -- 4. Behavioral Sequelae of Serious Head Injury in Children and Adolescents: The British Studies / David Shaffer -- 5. Neurobehavioral Outcome of Pediatric Closed Head Injury / Harvey S. Levin, Linda Ewing-Cobbs and Howard M. Eisenberg -- 6. Discourse as an Outcome Measure in Pediatric Head-Injured Populations / Sandra Bond Chapman -- 7. The UCLA Study of Mild Closed Head Injury in Children and Adolescents / Robert F. Asarnow, Paul Satz, Roger Light, Kenneth Zaucha, Richard Lewis and Carol McCleary.