Traumatic Brain Injury: Methods for Clinical and Forensic Neuropsychiatric Assessment, Third Edition provides physicians and psychologists with a scientifically based schema for the clinical evaluation of traumatic brain injury (TBI). The book assists physicians and psychologists in developing treatment plans for patients who have sustained TBIs an



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Robert P. Granacher Jr., MD, MBA, is a clinical professor of psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexignton. He also practices privately as a treating neuropsychiatrist and as a forensic neuropsychiatrist. Dr. Granacher obtained his MD from the University of Kentucky, Lexington. He later served as a resident and fellow at Harvard University and the Massachusetts General Hospital and other Harvard University teaching hospitals in Boston. He specializes in the neuropsychiatric treatment and evaluation of traumatic brain injury, perinatal birth injury, toxic brain injury, and other complex neurobehavioral disorders. Dr. Granacher is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a member of the American Neuropsychiatric Association.



Inhalt

Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Traumatic Brain Injury. Neuropsychiatric and Psychiatric Symptoms after Traumatic Brain Injury. Taking the Neuropsychiatric History after Traumatic Brain Injury. Performing the Neuropsychiatric Mental Status and Neurological Examinations after Traumatic Brain Injury. Use of Neuroimaging in the Neuropsychiatric Assessment of Traumatic Brain Injury. Standardized Neurocognitive Assessment of Traumatic Brain Injury. Behavioral Assessment Following Traumatic Brain Injury. Neuropsychiatric Examination Database and Treatment Planning. Forensic Examinations of Traumatic Brain Injury: Distinctions from Examinations for Treatment. Causation, Damages, Impairments, Disability, Outcomes, and Forensics of TBI Examinations. Neurobehavioral Analysis of Traumatic Brain Injury Forensic Data.

Titel
Traumatic Brain Injury
Untertitel
Methods for Clinical and Forensic Neuropsychiatric Assessment,Third Edition
EAN
9781466594814
ISBN
978-1-4665-9481-4
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
02.03.2015
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
13.01 MB
Anzahl Seiten
597
Jahr
2015
Untertitel
Englisch