Head Injuries, Concussions & Brain Damage: Cerebral and Cranial Trauma, Skull Fractures, Contusions, Hemorrhage, Loss of Consciousness, Coma

Head Injuries, Concussions, & Brain Damage: Cerebral and Cranial Trauma, Skull Fractures, Contusions, Hemorrhage, Loss of Consciousness, Coma TABLE OF CONTENTS Part I: Traumatic Head & Brain Injury - 3 The Meninges - 5 Dura Matter - 8 The Skull - 11 Skull Fractures - 15 Basilar Fractures - 20 Depressed Fractures - 27 Linear Fractures - 30 Hearing Loss, Vertigo, Dizziness, Blindness - 30 Facial Paralysis - 31 Anosmia - 32 Blindness - 36 Concussion & Mild Head Injuries - 37 Concussion - 39 Mild Concussion - 39 Classic Concussion - 40 Mild Head Injury - 40 Hypoxia & Blood Flow - 41 Respiratory Distress - 42 Vascular Trauma - 43 Myocardial Trauma - 43 Chest Trauma - 43 Summary - 43 Brainstem Abnormalities - 44 Diffuse Axonal Injuries & Contusions - 44 Neuropsychological Deficits - 44 Premorbid Influences - 45 Post Concussion Syndrome - 45 Emotional Sequela - 46 Cerebral Blood Flow - 46 Attention & Information Processing - 47 Whiplash & Blood Flow - 47 Vertigo, Hearing Loss & Tinnitus - 49 Diplopia & Photophopia - 51 Post Concussion Syndrome & Severe Head Injury - 52 Premorbid Characteristics - 52 Contusions, Brain Lesions, & Head Injuries - 53 Necrosis - 57 Axonal Transport Deficits - 58 Consciousness - 59 Coup & Contre Coup Contusions - 59 Contre Cavitation - 60 Differential Effects of Impact Site - 60 Rotation & Shearing Forces - 61 Brainstem & Subcortical Lesions - 62 Diffuse Axonal Injury - 62 Coma & Head Injuries - 64 Reticular Brainstem Damage & Loss of Consciousness - 64 Hemotomas & Hemorrhage - 65 Hemotomas - 66 Intradural Hemotomas - 68 Chronic Hematomas - 82 Herniation - 82 Dura Compartments & Brain Injury - 84 Subfalcial Herniation - 85 Tonsillar Cerebellar Hernation - 85 Tentorial/Temporal Lobe Herniation - 85 Coma & Levels of Consciousness - 91 Stupor - 91 Confusion - 92 Delirium - 92 Coma - 92 Glasgow Coma Scale - 103 Eye opening - 106 Motor response - 107 Verbal Response - 107 Severity - 107 Mortality - 107 Mortality & Age - 108 Mortality & Motor Functioning - 110 Mortality: General Complications - 112 Vegetative States - 114 Part II: Brain Damage & the Mind - 121 The Brain: A Functional Overview - 123 The Brainstem - 124 The Cerebellum -128 The Limbic System - 129 Limbic System Memory - 133 Neocortex - 134 Frontal, Temporal, Parietal, Occipital Lobes - 135 Frontal Lobes - 137 Temporal Lobes - 140 Parietal Lobes - 141 Occipital Lobes & Vision - 145