Brain Control of Responses to Trauma

Klappentext This 1994 volume was the first to look in depth at the way the brain responds to trauma. Zusammenfassung Originally published in 1994! this was the first volume to look in depth at the way the brain responds to trauma and subsequently integrates and influences behavioural! metabolic! neurohumoral! cardiovascular and immune functions. The authors! all international authorities in their fields! discuss data from experimental and clinical studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction N. J. Rothwell; 2. Overview of responses to injury B. Stonar; 3. Experimental approaches to the study of CNS control of responses to injury N. J. Rothwell and R. Little; 4. CNS control and neural mediations of immune responses and inflammation D. Payan; 5. Neurohormonal control of cytokines during injury I. Berczi; 6. Brain regions involved in modulation of immune responses P. Neveu; 7. Psychological and neurobiological consequences of trauma C. Nemeroff; 8. CNS control of sickness behaviour Robert Dantzer; 9. Psychological and behavioural aspects of pain H. Ursin; 10. Central control of cardiovascular responses to injury R. Little and E. Kirkman; 11. Endocrine/neuroendocrine responses to trauma F. Berkenbosch; 12. Central control of the metabolic and thermoregulatory responses to injury N. J. Rothwell; 13. Central control of pain R. W. Clarke; Index.

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• Authors: Nancy J. (University of Manchester) Berk Rothwell, Nancy J. Berkenbosch Rothwell
• Assisted by: Frank Berkenbosch (Editor), Berkenbosch Frank (Editor), Nancy J. Rothwell (Editor), Rothwell Nancy J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9780521338660
• ISBN: 978-0-521-33866-0
• No. of pages: 354
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, PHYSIOLOGY, MEDICAL / Neurology, MEDICAL / Physiology, MEDICAL / Emergency Medicine, Trauma & shock, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Neurosciences, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Trauma and shock