Clinical Neuroscience for Rehabilitation

PART I: FUNDAMENTALS: THE RELATIONSHIPS AND DEVELOPMENT OF STRUCTURES, AND THE BASIS OF THEIR COMMUNICATION 

1. Basic Design and Development of the Nervous System

2. Regional Anatomy of the CNS and Its Blood Supply

3. Cells of the Nervous System.

4. Cellular Neurobiology

 

PART II: ANATOMY OF THE FIVE MAJOR REGIONS OF THE CNS AND THEIR BLOOD SUPPLY

5. Spinal Cord and Brain Stem

6. Diencephalon and Cerebellum

7. Cerebral Hemispheres

 

PART III: SENSORY AND MOTOR SYSTEMS FOR THE EXTREMITIES AND TRUNK

8. Introduction to Somatic Sensory and Motor Systems

9. Somatic Sensory Systems for the Extremities and Trunk

10. Peripheral Components for the Control of Movement: The Motor Unit and Its Disorders

11. Central Components for the Control of Movement and Their Disorders

12. Autonomic Nervous System

 

PART IV: SENSORY AND MOTOR SYSTEMS FOR THE HEAD AND NECK

13. Cranial Nerves

14. Somatic Sensory and Motor Systems for the Head and Neck

15. Brain Stem Structure, Blood Supply, and Clinical Signs

 

PART V: SPECIAL FUNCTIONAL SYSTEMS OF THE CNS

 

PART VA: SENSORY SYSTEMS

16. Pain and Its Modulation

17. Vestibular and Auditory Systems

18. Vision

 

PART VB: MOTOR SYSTEMS

19. Cerebellum and Basal Ganglia

20. Voluntary Movement

 

PART VC: COGNITIVE SYSTEMS

21. Cognition and Association Cortex

22. Emotion, Memory, and Language

 

SUMMARY

 

PART VI: EXAMPLES OF NEUROLOGIC INJURY WITHIN THE CNS

23. Normal and Abnormal Aging

24. Strokes and Stroke Syndromes

25. The Brain’s Environment and Traumatic Brain Injury

26. Brain Plasticity: Injury and Recovery

 

APPENDICES

Brain Imaging

Electrodiagnostic Techniques in Clinical Practice

Atlas of the Forebrain

 

GLOSSARY

INDEX