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Imaging of mild traumatic brain injury using SPECT

In 6 of the 8 patients, baseline neuropsychological testing and SPECT showed
focal abnormalities whereas CT and EEG did not detect (structural) lesions.
More info:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstra\
ct&list_uids=14523337
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Neuropsychosocial Intervention: Treatment of Severe Behavioral Dyscontrol After
TBI
by Robert L. Karol

Outlines the nature and significance of behavioral dyscontrol, explains
aggression, and details the neuropsychosocial treatment approach and the
principles on which it is based. Case vignettes.
More info:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0849312442/top100
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Imaging of mild traumatic brain injury using 57Co and 99mTc HMPAO SPECT as
compared to other diagnostic procedures.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14523337

Brain lesion size and phase shift as an index of cerebral autoregulation in
patients with severe head injury.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14520542

Tourette's syndrome following temporal lobectomy for seizure control.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14527500

Epilepsy and sleep disturbance.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14527482

Parental anxiety and quality of life in children with epilepsy.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14527488

Medical comorbidities in the treatment of epilepsy.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14527479

Pain coping and social support as predictors of long-term functional disability
and pain in early rheumatoid arthritis.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14527529

Towards the pharmacotherapy of eating disorders.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14521477

Non-linear, non-invasive method for seizure anticipation in focal epilepsy.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14527747

Correlation of subjective and objective sleep measurements at different stages
of the treatment of depression.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14527649

Epilepsy and migraine.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14527480

Identification of novel expressed sequences, up-regulated in the leucocytes of
CFS patients.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14519154

Aggressive behavior of epilepsy patients in the course of levetiracetam add-on
therapy
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14527496

Evaluation of patients with mild traumatic brain injury.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14517499

Current trends in fibromyalgia research.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14521479

Attention, memory, and behavioral adjustment in children with frontal lobe
epilepsy.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14527495

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