Quick Reference NeuroScience for Rehabilitation Professionals by Gutman, Sharon A.;

Short description:

"Quick Reference NeuroScience for Rehabilitation Professionals: The Essential Neurologic Principles Underlying Rehabilitation Practice, Third Edition" is a user-friendly, comprehensive text that specifically addresses the key information needed to understand the neuroscience of clinical rehabilitation.

Long description:

"Quick Reference NeuroScience for Rehabilitation Professionals: The Essential Neurologic Principles Underlying Rehabilitation Practice, Third Edition" is a user-friendly, comprehensive text that specifically addresses the key information needed to understand the neuroscience of clinical rehabilitation. A concise and quick reference for the practitioner and student who are learning or reviewing the most relevant neuroscience principles supporting rehabilitation therapy. The updated third edition continues to meet a need in the rehabilitation profession that has gone unfilled - the ability to break down neuroscience information into the essential principles that can be used to understand neurological conditions and the principles underlying rehabilitation evaluation and practice. This fully-updated third edition provides a quick review of specific neuroscience concepts and principles that support rehabilitation interventions.

In this era of information overload, this text rapidly and thoroughly provides condensed information in a user-friendly, easy-to-use format for readers to review and convey relevant information to patients. Sharon Gutman has organised the text into three parts: the first addresses neuroanatomy; the second addresses the function of neurological systems underlying physical, psychiatric, cognitive, and visual perceptual disorders; and the final section addresses clinical neuropathology related to ageing, addiction, memory, and the neurological substrates of sex and gender. A specific section describes the common neurodiagnostic tests that therapists do not administer but must have knowledge of when results are discussed at treatment team meetings.

Features of the third edition:

• Presented in a simple and organised bulleted format.


• Large-scale colour illustrations to easily visualise neuroanatomical structures and systems.


• Text boxes to apply key neuroscience concepts to the understanding of common neurological disorders and treatment.


• Updated clinical test questions and glossary.

The third edition bridges a gap by quickly providing the rehabilitation professional with the most salient information needed to understand neurologic principles underlying rehabilitation practice.

Table of Contents:

About the Author Foreword by Ashwini K. Rao, EdD, OTR, FAOTAIntroduction Section 1 Directional Terminology Section 2 Division of the Nervous System Section 3 Gross Cerebral Structures Section 4 Ventricular System Section 5 The Cranium Section 6 The Meninges Section 7 Spinal Cord Anatomy Section 8 The Cranial Nerves Section 9 Sensory Receptors Section 10 Neurons and Action Potentials Section 11 Special Sense Receptors Section 12 Vestibular System Section 13 Autonomic Nervous System Section 14 Enteric Nervous System Section 15 Pain Section 16 Peripheral Nerve Injury and Regeneration Section 17 Phantom Limb Phenomenon Section 18 Spinal Cord Tracts Section 19 Spinal Cord Injury and Disease Section 20 Proprioception Section 21 Disorders of Muscle Tone Section 22 Motor Functions and Dysfunctions of the Central Nervous System: Cortex, Basal Ganglia, Cerebellum Section 23 Sensory Functions and Dysfunctions of the Central Nervous System Section 24 Thalamus and Brainstem Sensory and Motor Roles: Function and Dysfunction Section 25 Right vs Left Brain Functions and Disorders Section 26 Perceptual Functions and Dysfunctions of the Central Nervous System Section 27 Blood Supply of the Brain: Cerebrovascular Disorders Section 28 Commonly Used Neurodiagnostic Tests Section 29 Neurotransmitters: The Neurochemical Basis of Human Behavior Section 30 The Neurologic Substrates of Addiction Section 31 Neurologic Mechanisms of Memory Section 32 The Neurologic Substrates of Emotion Section 33 The Aging Brain Section 34 Sex Differences in Male and Female BrainsGlossary Index