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Brain damage, brain repair

Title: Brain damage, brain repair / by James W. Fawcett, Anne E. Rosser, and Stephen B. Dunnett ; with additional contributions from: Harry Baker ... [et al.].
Author: Fawcett, James W., 1950-
Publication: New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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xvii, 466 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

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Contents

Sect. I. Mechanisms of Brain Damage. 1. Death and Survival in the Nervous System. 2. Axotomy and Mechanical Damage. 3. Metabolic Damage. 4. Inflammation and Demyelination. 5. Infection. 6. Neurodegenerative Disease -- Sect. II. Damage Limitation. 7. Neuroprotection. 8. Steroids. 9. Trophic Factors. 10. Control of Inflammation -- Sect. III. Intrinsic Mechanisms of Recovery. 11. Peripheral Nerve Regeneration. 12. Failure of CNS Regeneration. 13. Anatomical Plasticity. 14. Biochemical Plasticity. 15. Remyelination -- Sect. IV. Clinical Assessment of Brain Damage. 16. Coma. 17. Motor, Sensory, and Autonomic Function. 18. Cognition. 19. Psychiatric Assessment -- Sect. V. Pharmacology and Rehabilitation. 20. Pharmacological Management. 21. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation -- Sect. VI. Structural Repair. 22. Axon Regeneration in the CNS. 23. Primary Neuronal Transplantation. 24. Glial Transplantation. 25. Stem Cells. 26. Gene Therapy.
App. 1. Alzheimer's Disease -- App. 2. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/Motor Neurone Disease -- App. 3. Creutfedt-Jakob Disease (CJD) -- App. 4. Epilepsy -- App. 5. Huntington's Disease -- App. 6. Multiple Sclerosis -- App. 7. Parkinson's Disease -- App. 8. Spinal-cord Injury -- App. 9. Stroke.

ISBN

0198523386 (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

00054850

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Columbia University Libraries