Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Postconcussion Syndrome

Dr McCrea is Executive Director of the ProHealth Care Neuroscience Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist and has been head of the Neuropsychology Service at Waukesha Memorial Hospital since 1996. He is also Associate Adjunct Professor of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dr. McCrea has been an active research in the neurosciences, with numerous scientific publications, book chapters, and national and international lectures on the topic of traumatic brain injury.

PART 1: THE TBI LANDSCAPE ; 1. Epidemiology and impact of Traumatic Brain Injury ; 2. Zeroing in on MTBI: epidemiology and impact ; 3. Challenges in defining and diagnosing MTBI ; 4. Advances in MTBI research methodologies ; Top 10 conclusions ; PART 2: BASIC AND CLINICAL SCIENCE OF MTBI ; 5. Biomechanics of MTBI ; 6. Neurophysiology of MTBI: the neurometabolic cascade ; 7. Neuroimaging in MTBI ; Top 10 conclusions ; PART 3: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MTBI ; 8. Acute symptoms and symptom recovery ; 9. Acute cognitive effects and early recovery ; 10. Neuropsychological recovery ; 11. Influence of acute injury characteristics on recovery ; 12. Measuring neurophysiological recovery ; 13. Functional outcome after MTBI ; 14. Exceptions to the rule: potential long-term effects of MTBI ; Top 10 conclusions ; PART 4: IMPLICATIONS FOR RETHINKING POST-CONCUSSION SYNDROME ; 15. Defining post-concussion syndrome ; 16. Non-specificity of postconcussion syndrome symptoms ; 17. Epidemiology of postconcussion syndrome: another denominator problem ; 18. PCS as neuropsychological disorder ; 19. Psychological theories of postconcussion syndrome ; 20. Interventional models for postconcussion syndrome ; 21. A practical model for clinical management of PCS ; Top 10 conclusions