Neuroscience: Fundamentals for Rehabilitation

This full-colour text/atlas presents all of the neuroscience knowledge that is essential to the practice of clinical rehabilitation. It emphasizes the neurological disorders and body systems that are most relevant to physical and occupational therapy. A cumulative, building-block organization--progressing from the cellular and developmental level, through the somatosensory, autonomic, and motor systems, to regional anatomy--makes complex material easier to master. Features: * Presents the most up-to-date, research-based information available today, including our most recent understanding of subjects such as spasticity and chronic pain. * Includes descriptions of personal experiences from people who are actually living with various neurological disorders, driving home the clinical relevance of the material. * Offers case studies and review questions to help readers build their understanding of the content. * Features full-colour artwork that clarifies spatial relationships and depicts the flow of information within the nervous system. * Uses boxes to summarise, at a glance, the pathology, aetiology, signs and symptoms, and prognosis for the most commonly encountered disorders. * Photographic atlas of the brain.