Changes in the Brain Impact on Daily Life /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Chiaravalloti, Nancy D. (Editor), Goverover, Yael (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; General practice (Medicine).; Health administration.; Neurology.; Clinical psychology.; Neuropsychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Administration.; Clinical Psychology.; General Practice / Family Medicine.

This informative text details the many changes in everyday life as the result of injury, illness, or aging affecting the brain. Experts across brain-related fields trace mechanisms of conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, TBI, and dementia as they impact regions of the brain, and resulting cogniti...

Table of Contents:

• Measurement: the quantification of changes in daily life
• Normal aging
• Alzheimer’s disease
• Parkinson’s disease
• Traumatic brain injury (possibly two chapters: mild and severe)
• Multiple sclerosis
• Stroke
• Cancer
• Epilepsy
• Public policy: Impact on individuals with brain injury and illness
• Where do we go from here?