Disorders of consciousness

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A volume in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology series (Series Editors: Michael J. Aminoff, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, USA; François Boller, Bethesda, USA; Dick F. Swaab, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) on disorders of consciousness. This volume is aimed at neurologists and all those involved with the care of patients with altered levels of consciousness. Emphasis is given to distinguishing reversible disorders from the irreversible and disorders requiring medical treatment from those requiring neurosurgical management. The technological advances in neuroimaging and how this has affected the understanding of the neurological basis of consciousness and the approach to the patient with an altered level of consciousness is covered, as are the resulting ethical issues.

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TBI and consciousness
This text is the most informative text and now most important resource regarding all clinical issues related to the behavioral features related tp all the etiologic spectrum of acquired brain injury. The editors as will as the contributors are a collection of the most knowledgable and experienced academic and clinical in the arena of conscious on an international level. This text is an essential for not only physicians who deal in the arena of neuroscience, but on the text of any physician dealing with patients with any element of altered consciousness and alterations in mental status. Ralph B. Lilly M.D.

書名 Disorders of consciousness
著者 volume editors, G. Bryan Young and Eelco F.M. Wijdicks
索書號 WL100/H236/2008
出版者 Elsevier
ISBN 9780444518958 (hbk.)
出版年 2008