Neuroscience. Fundamentals for Rehabilitation

Boost your skills in planning and managing physical rehabilitation! Neuroscience: Fundamentals for Rehabilitation, 5th Edition provides a practical guide to the nervous system and how it affects the practice of physical and occupational therapy. Case studies and first-person stories from people with neurologic disorders make it easier to apply your knowledge to the clinical setting. New to this edition is a new chapter on neuroanatomy imaging. Written by noted PT educator Laurie Lundy-Ekman, this book uses evidence-based research to help you understand neurologic disorders and treat clients who have physical limitations due to nervous system damage or disease.

• Logical, systems approach to neuroscience makes it easier to master complex information and provides a framework for conducting a neurologic examination and evaluation.
• A clinical perspective of neuroscience is provided through case studies, personal stories written by patients, and summaries of key features of neurologic disorders and the body systems they affect. 
• Five sections — Overview of Neurology, Cellular Level Function, Development, Vertical Systems, and Regions — first show how neural cells operate, and then allow you to apply your knowledge of neuroscience.
• Emphasis on topics critical to physical rehabilitation includes coverage of abnormal muscle tone, chronic pain, and control of movement.
• Hundreds of color-coded illustrations show body structures and functions across systems.
• Clinical Notes case studies demonstrate how neuroscience knowledge may be applied to clinical situations. 
• Pathology boxes provide a quick summary of the features of neurologic disorders commonly encountered in rehabilitation practice.

1.  Introduction to Neuroscience
Part 1: Overview of Neurology 
2.  Neuroanatomy  
3.  Neurologic Disorders and the Neurologic Exam  
4.  Atlas and Imaging 
Part 2: Cellular Level Function 
5. Physical and Electrical Properties of Cells in the Nervous System   
6. Neural Communication: Synaptic and Extrasynaptic Transmission
7. Neuroplasticity 
Part 3: Development 
8. Development of the Nervous System  
Part 4: Vertical Systems 
9.  Autonomic Nervous System  
10. Peripheral Somatosensory System  
11. Central Somatosensory System  
12. Pain as a Disease: Neuropathic Pain, Central Sensitivity Syndromes, and Pain Syndromes  
13. Motor Neurons and Spinal Region Motor Function
14. Motor Tracts  
15. The Cerebellum and the Spinocerebellar Pathways
16. Basal ganglia: Motor, Executive, Social, Behavioral, and Emotional Functions 
Part 5: Regions  
17. Peripheral Region 
18. Spinal Region  
19. Cranial Nerves 
20. Brainstem Region  
21. Visual System  
22. Vestibular System 
23. Dizziness  
24. Cerebrospinal Fluid System 
25. Vascular System 
26. Cerebrum  
27. Frontal Lobe and Medial Temporal Lobe: Goal-Directed Behavior, Self Awareness, Emotions and Behavior, Memory  
28. Parietotemporal Association Area: Communication, Spatial Understanding 
29. Cerebral Blood Supply, Stroke, Disorders of Vascular Formation, Cerebral Edema, Brain Herniation