Foundations of Sport-Related Brain Injuries

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Introductory Chapter Concussion in Athletics: Ongoing Controversyz

   1. Introductory Chapter Concussion in Athletics: Ongoing Controversy

      • Semyon Slobounov, Wayne Sebastianelli

      Pages 1-16

3. Mechanisms of Concussion: From Brain to Behavior

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Neurophysiology of Concussion: Theoretical Perspectives

      • Nigel A. Shaw

      Pages 19-43

   3. Concussion Mechanisms and Pathophysiology

      • Jack Wilberger, Juan Ortega, Semyon Slobounov

      Pages 45-63

   4. The Biomechanics and Pathomechanics of Sport-Related Concussion

      • Kevin M. Guskiewicz, Jason P. Mihalik

      Pages 65-83

4. Evaluation of Sport-Related Concussions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Concussion Classification: Ongoing Controversy

      • Robert Cantu

      Pages 87-110

   3. New Developments in Sports Concussion Management

      • Mark R. Lovell, Jamie E. Pardini

      Pages 111-136

   4. Neuropsychological Assessment Of Sports-Related Concussion: Measuring Clinically Significant Change

      • Aaron M. Rosenbaum, Peter A. Arnett, Christopher M. Bailey, Ruben J. Echemendia

      Pages 137-169

   5. Motivation and the Assessment of Sports-Related Concussion

      • Christopher M. Bailey, Peter A. Arnett

      Pages 171-193

5. Neuroimaging of Traumatic Brain Injury

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195

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   2. Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Traumatic Brain Injury and Concussion

      • Stefan Blüml, William M. Brooks

      Pages 197-220

   3. Fundamentals of EEG Methodology in Concussion Research

      • William J. Ray, Semyon Slobounov

      Pages 221-240

   4. Electroencephalography and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

      • Robert W. Thatcher

      Pages 241-265

   5. Neuroimaging in Traumatic Brain Injury

      • Sherman C. Stein

      Pages 267-288

6. Empirical Findings of Concussion Along Life-Span

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 289-289

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   2. Pediatric Traumatic Head Injuries

      • Rimma Danov

      Pages 291-314

   3. Aerobic Fitness and Concussion Outcomes in High School Football

      • Anthony P. Kontos, Robert J. Elbin III, Michael W. Collins

      Pages 315-339

   4. EEG Changes and Balance Deficits Following Concussion: One Piece of the Puzzle

      • James W.G. Thompson

      Pages 341-374

This book is the partial product of a conference on concussion in athletics held at the Pennsylvania State University, April 29-30, 2004. For a number of reasons it seemed timely to hold such a conference as well as to condense our current understanding of mechanisms, predispositions, and latest developments in evaluation and managements of sport-related concussions in a single book format. Despite dramatic advances in medicine, traumatic brain injury, commonly know as concussion, is still one of the most puzzling and least understood injuries facing the sport medicine world today. There still no universal agreement assigning the level of severity the sport-related concussions nor there is any treatment besides the passage of time. Medicines' inability to fully understanding concussion, has led us to question when it is truly safe to return an athlete to full sport participation so threat for risk of re-injury is minimized. The need for a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the spo- related concussions stem from recent evidence that there are long-lasting residual behavioral, psycho-social and neural disabilities that are often overlooked using current research methods. The notion of transient and rapid symptoms resolution is misleading since symptoms resolution is frequently not indicative of injury resolution. There are no two traumatic brain injuries alike in mechanism, symptomology, or symptoms resolution. Most grading scales are based on loss of consciousness, and post-traumatic amnesia, both of which occur infrequently in sport-related mild traumatic brain injuries.

• Concussion
• Neuroscience
• Sports Injuries
• evolution
• imaging techniques
• neurophysiology
• neuropsychology
• rehabilitation

• Penn State University, USA

  Semyon Slobounov, Wayne Sebastianelli

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