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Zusatztext This volume will repay the reader with a greatly enhanced understanding of the challenge facing head-injured patients when they try to return to society. Klappentext This is a timely analysis of the important clinical issue of recovery of function after head injury. It looks at recent research advances, methodological problems, and ways of assessing the outcome of head injury. The distinguished international contributors are from a range of disciplines. Zusammenfassung This is a timely analysis of the important clinical issue of recovery of function after head injury. It looks at recent research advances, methodological problems, and ways of assessing the outcome of head injury. The distinguished international contributors are from a range of disciplines. Inhaltsverzeichnis Methodologic issues in clinicopathologic correlation of head injury in outcome studies; Design, management and analysis of neurobehavioural outcome studies; Neuropsychological assessment of head injured patients; Investigation of the neurobehavioural outcome of head injury: the physician's point of view; Psychiatric sequelae of head injury: conceptual and methodologic problems; Developmental issues and recovery from head injury in children; Memory disturbance after head injury: recent strategies for research; Attention after head injury: advances in measurement methods and integration of experimental models.
