The Brain at Risk

Dawson Hedges MD is a professor of psychology at the department of psychology and a faculty member in the neuroscience center at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He studies cognitive epidemiology. He has coauthored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles. Ramona Hopkins PhD is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brigham Young University and a clinical research investigator in critical care medicine at Intermountain Medical Center. She a founding member of the Center for Humanizing Critical Care at Intermountain Health Care. Her research focuses on understanding patient and family outcomes after critical illness including neuroimaging, cognitive and psychological outcomes, and quality of life. Dr. Hopkins has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on memory, outcomes after hypoxia and critical illness. Thomas J. Farrer PhD is currently an Assistant Professor in the Duke University School of Medicine. His primary work is as a clinician in the Duke Clinical Neuropsychology Service. He obtained his PhD in clinical psychology from Brigham Young University in 2015, with a clinical neuropsychology internship completed at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University (2015) and clinical neuropsychology fellowship at Duke University Medical Center (2017). Dr. Farrer's clinical and research interests are in traumatic brain injury, dementia, and neuroimaging. Erin Bigler PhD is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brigham Young University. He is well known as a pioneer of functional neuroimaging applied to clinical neuropsychology, with a focus on traumatic brain injury and behavioral outcomes in adults in children. He has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles in various areas of neuropsychology such as brain injury, autism, and dementia.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Cognition in Affective Disorders.- Chapter 3:  Cognition in Anxiety Disorders.- Chapter 4: Cognition in Schizophrenia.- Chapter 5: Attention-Deficit, Hyperactivity Disorder and Cognition.- Chapter 6: Cognition in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa.- Chapter 7: Cerebrovascular Disease and Cognition.- Chapter 8: Endocrine Disease and Cognition.- Chapter 9: Chronic Pain and Cognition.- Chapter 10: Cognitive Sequelae of Sepsis.- Chapter 11: Postoperative Cognitive Decline.- Chapter 12: Cognitive Findings Associated with Multiple Sclerosis.- Chapter 13: Traumatic Brain Injury and Cognition.- Chapter 14: Cognitive Deficits Associated with Drug Use.- Chapter 15: Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Cognition.- Chapter 16: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning and Cognitive Function.- Chapter 17: Cognitive Function in Pulmonary Disease.- Chapter 18: Conclusion: The Brain at Risk.