Handbook of Head Trauma
Acute Care to Recovery
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Charles J. Long
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Development of Neuropsychology as a Professional Psychological Specialty: History, Training, and Credentialing
Neuropsychology can be depicted as having a long history and a short past. As early as 400 BC, Hippocrates conjectured a correlation of behavioral observations with possible anatomic localizations, and later G...
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Development of Neuropsychology as a Professional Psychological Specialty
Although neuropsychology as a scientific field of inquiry has origins dating at least as far back as the late 19th century, it is only during the past quarter century that neuropsychology has enjoyed widesprea...
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Reaction time and diazepam plasma concentration in subjects with normal gastric pH
The present study investigated the relationship of reaction time with the plasma concentration of four different formulations of diazepam (liquid, original, new, and generic). On four separate days, over a 4-m...
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Cognitive Sequelae in Closed Head Injury
For the past 18 years our laboratory has been conducting neuropsychological assessments on head-injured patients referred by neurosurgeons, neurologists, attorneys, insurance companies, and government agencies...
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Training and Credentialing in Child Neuropsychology
Although neuropsychology as a scientific field of inquiry has origins dating at least as far back as the late 19th century, it is only during the past 20 years that neuropsychology has enjoyed widespread recog...
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Neuropsychological Assessment and Treatment of Head Trauma Patients
Head trauma has undoubtedly been a significant problem since the beginning of man, but it’s incidence, in our fast-based technological society, has reached staggering proportions. Caveness (1977) estimated tha...
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Four Computational Models for Investigating Neuropsychological Decision-making
Neuropsychological decision-making in the clinical setting can be investigated from the perspective of different computational models derived from cognitive science. In this chapter, we focus on four of these ...
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The Current Status of Computer-Assisted Cognitive Rehabilitation
Millions of children and young adults suffer from brain impairment due to inborn or acquired disorders. For example, in the U.S. alone there are approximately 10 million head injuries each year. Whether due to...
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Methodological Issues in Research in Developmental Neuropsychology
The purpose of this chapter is to present an overview of issues and problems associated with neuropsychological studies of brain-injured children. We are primarily concerned with factors that influence the rel...
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Habenular lesions and avoidance learning deficits in albino rats
Albino rats were given either habenular lesions or control operations and evaluated postsurgically during one-way active avoidance and passive avoidance training. Rats with habenular lesions, particularly thos...
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Odor stimuli, training procedures, and performance in a T-maze
This study demonstrates that rats can use odor cues to learn a T-maze discrimination task, thus supporting the findings of a previous study. Furthermore, only a very small quantity of dried food (45 mg) was ne...
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The effect of the onset of stimuli on reactivity in the rat
Forty rats, maintained on either ad lib food and water or on 22-h food deprivation, were tested in a photobeam cage under conditions of no specific external stimulation or where tone, light, or the odor of amy...
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Schedule control in the rabbit
Operant responding for water reinforcement was investigated in three New Zealand albino rabbits. Performance of two rabbits under FR3, FR8t and FR95 schedules was similar to the performance of other organisms ...
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The effect of reversible lesions in the posterior hypothalamus on conditioned suppression
Three rats with cannulae implanted in the posterior hypothalamic area and one nonimplant rat were tested in a conditioned suppression paradigm. During the acquisition phase of conditioned suppression, xylocain...
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Odor cues in a maze discrimination
Rats were found capable of making the choice in a T-maze using the odor from only one 45-mg Noyes food pellet as a discriminative stimulus. This finding points to the need for controlling odor stimuli in the t...
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An evaluation of carbon dioxide as a short acting anesthetic
The use of carbon dioxide (CO2) as a quick-acting anesthetic of short duration was studied. Sixteen rats were exposed to a CO2 atmosphere for 10 and15 sec on separate days. Records were taken of the time required...
