Quick Reference Neuroscience for Rehabilitation Professionals: The Essential Neurologic Principles Underlying Rehabilitation Practice

Traditionally, neuroscience is the most difficult area for a student to grasp in the rehabilitation profession. Quick Reference Neuroscience for Rehabilitation Professionals: The Essential Neurologic Principles Underlying Rehabilitation Practice provides this complex information in a quick, easy-to-use format that every student and clinician must have!

Quick Reference Neuroscience for Rehabilitation Professionals is written specifically for the rehabilitation professional and student. The text is written in a simplistic, bulleted-outlined format with accompanying full-page, color illustrations that enhance understanding of the subject matter. Clinical correlates are discussed to provide a greater understanding of the common pathological disorders that occur in response to damage to specific neuroanatomical structures. In addition to a basic understanding of neuroanatomical structures and functions, the book provides an easy-to-read discussion of the essential neuroscience information necessary for the rehabilitation professional and student.

Features

• Bulleted outline format makes it easy to find pertinent information quickly.
• Color illustrations make abstract neurologic concepts easy to understand.
• Clinical correlates regarding the most common neurologic conditions are discussed in each section of the book.
• The Glossary includes clinical terms not often found in the glossaries of basic neuroscience textbooks.
• Because the book was written by an occupational therapist, it focuses only on the essential neuroscience concepts that are important for the rehabilitation professional.

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Long Island Univ., Brooklyn, NY. Written specifically for the rehabilitation student and professional, in a simplistic, bulleted-outline format. Includes full-page, color illustrations. Clinical correlations are discussed as well as neuroscience information. Glossary includes clinical terms. Softcover.

This barebones, quick reference work is written specifically for rehabilitation professionals and students. It is divided into 34 sections and appended with references, a glossary, and an index.Section 1, provides very brief descriptions of directional terminology and planes of the brain. Sections 2 and 3 illustrate divisions of the nervous systems and gross cerebral structures. The next three sections cover the ventricular system, cranium, and meninges. Eight sections devoted to key features of the central nervous system follow that. Sections 15-17 deal with pain, nerve injury and rehabilitation, and phantom limb phenomenon. The next four sections examine spinal cord tracts and spinal cord injury and disease as well as proprioception and muscle tone disorders. Motor functions are the subject of sections 22 through 24. The next three sections relate to hemispheric brain use, perception and dysfunction of the central nervous system and brain blood supply. The remaining seven sections focus on neurologic brain issues including commonly used tests, the neurochemical basis of behavior, addiction, learning and memory, emotions, the aging brain and sex differences.The references section presents material used in each section and the glossary, while useful as an extension of the book, has terms that are commonly found in most medical reference works (Dorland, Merriam-Webster, Stedman, and Taber). This book functions well as an encyclopedia of the central nervous system. It is less a textbook and more of a handy guide to neuroscience. Although it is targeted toward rehabilitation professionals it is a handy reference work for any neuroscience professional or those desiring basic information about neuroscience basics.Reviewer: Dale A. Stirling, Information Specialist, Intertox, dastirling@intertox.com Copyright 2002 E-Streams Reviews