Quick Reference Neuroscience for Rehabilitation Professionals: The Essential Neurologic Principles Underlying Rehabilitation Practice, Second Edition
Sharon A. Gutman,
PhD, OTR
Product Description
Quick Reference Neuroscience for Rehabilitation Professionals: The Essential Neurologic Principles Underlying Rehabilitation Practice, Second Edition is a user-friendly, comprehensive text that specifically addresses the key information needed to understand the neuroscience of clinical rehabilitation. This updated Second Edition is designed to provide complex information in a quick, easy-to-use format that is beneficial to students and rehabilitation professionals.
Dr. Sharon A. Gutman designed Quick Reference Neuroscience for Rehabilitation Professionals, Second Edition to provide easy-to-understand explanations of complex neurologic phenomena. The text describes basic neuroanatomical structures and functions, neuropathology underlying specific clinical conditions, and theories supporting clinical treatment.
Features of the Second Edition:
- User-friendly, bulleted outline format
- Italicized key concepts for easy scanning and identification
- Color illustrations to help visualize the location of neuroanatomical structures
- New clinical test questions
- New text boxes outlining neurologic conditions and treatments
- Updated and expanded glossary with both clinical and neurological terms
Including accessible information, color illustrations, new test questions, and updated features, Quick Reference Neuroscience for Rehabilitation Professionals: The Essential Neurologic Principles Underlying Rehabilitation Practice, Second Edition is a dynamic text for all students and clinicians in occupational therapy, physical therapy, and other areas of rehabilitation.
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Contents
- About the Author
- Section 1. Directional Terminology
- Section 2. Division of the Nervous System
- Section 3. Gross Cerebral Structures
- Section 4. Ventricular System
- Section 5. The Cranium
- Section 6. The Meninges
- Section 7. Spinal Cord Anatomy
- Section 8. The Cranial Nerves
- Section 9. Sensory Receptors
- Section 10. Neurons and Action Potentials
- Section 11. Special Sense Receptors
- Section 12. Vestibular System
- Section 13. Autonomic Nervous System
- Section 14. Enteric Nervous System
- Section 15. Pain
- Section 16. Peripheral Nerve Injury and Regeneration
- Section 17. Phantom Limb Phenomenon
- Section 18. Spinal Cord Tracts
- Section 19. Spinal Cord Injury and Disease
- Section 20. Proprioception
- Section 21. Disorders of Muscle Tone
- Section 22. Motor Functions and Dysfunctions of the Central Nervous System: Cortex, Basal
Ganglia, Cerebellum
- Section 23. Sensory Functions and Dysfunctions of the Central Nervous System
- Section 24. Thalamus and Brainstem Sensory and Motor Roles: Function and Dysfunction
- Section 25. Right vs Left Brain Functions and Disorders
- Section 26. Perceptual Functions and Dysfunctions of the Central Nervous System
- Section 27. Blood Supply of the Brain: Cerebrovascular Disorders
- Section 28. Commonly Used Neurodiagnostic Tests
- Section 29. Neurotransmitters: The Neurochemical Basis of Human Behavior
- Section 30. The Neurologic Substrates of Addiction
- Section 31. Learning and Memory
- Section 32. The Neurologic Substrates of Emotion
- Section 33. The Aging Brain
- Section 34. Sex Differences in Male and Female Brains
References
Appendix: Clinical Test Questions
Glossary
Index
From the Foreword:
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Reviews
“Throughout each section, there are outstanding color illustrations that help the reader visualize the location of neuroanatomical structures and understand the material presented. As a quick reference to neuroscience, the publication is well suited for use by both clinicians in physical and occupational therapy and all students in professions related to rehabilitation. This is a great reference to have in any clinic that commonly treats patients with neurological deficits. It is an easy-to-use, fast method for those who require information at their fingertips. Students as well as seasoned therapists will benefit from the information in this text.”
— Kristen Kwiatkowski-Digwood, ADVANCE for Physical Therapists & PT Assistants
“Throughout each section, there are outstanding color illustrations “that help visualize the location of neuroanatomical structures…As a “quick reference” to Neuroscience, the publication is well-suited for use of Clinicians in physical therapy and occupational therapy as well as bring a “dynamic text” for all students in professions related to rehabilitation.”
— Jay Schleichkorn, PhD, PT, Dr. Jay's E-Book Reports
"Occupational therapists working in the area of neurological rehabilitation will find that this is a truly useful tool to be consulted time and time again, and occupational therapy professors will find it a source of tricks and strategies on how to transmit the essentials of neurological functioning in a way that can be readily assimilated by their students."
— Isabelle Beaudry Bellefeuille, Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy
Reviews from previous edition:
“The book would be a welcome aid for PT or OT students in their beginning days of neurology, and also for the professional health care worker in the area of neurological rehab.”
— Dan Bankson, MSPT, Advance for Physical Therapists and Physical Therapist Assistants
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About the Author
Sharon A. Gutman, PhD, OTR, is currently an associate professor in Programs in Occupational Therapy at Columbia University. Her clinical expertise lies in the treatment of adults with traumatic brain injury and psychiatric disability. In the last two decades, she has taught courses and written journal articles and books regarding (a) the fundamentals of clinical neuroscience, (b) the neurologic basis of rehabilitation practices, and (c) the neurologic basis of pathological conditions including traumatic brain injury and psychiatric disability.
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