دانلود کتاب تصویربرداری عصبی عملکردی در آسیب شلاق

Whiplash injuries are often looked upon as accidents causing extensive symptomatology without the presence of objective findings. They can cause a disease condition, which is frequently denied, but is unfortunate and may become chronic and invalidating for the patient. In the past three decades, much has been published on whiplash injury, yet both the confusion regarding the condition and the medicolegal discussion surrounding it has increased. In this scenario, a guide on recent and current international research in the field is even more than necessary. Especially functional imaging methods—such as single-photon emission tomography (SPET) or positron emission tomography (PET)—have shown various and sometimes differing brain alterations, which should be discussed in the conflicting arena of whiplash victims, treating physicians, insurance companies, and reviewers. This book, now in its third, completely revised and updated edition,1 accordingly offers a critical approach to the challenging interpretation of the latest research data obtained using functional neuroimaging in whiplash injury. It covers all aspects, including the imaging tools themselves and the different methods of image analysis. Details on historical whiplash experiments and crash tests, and on biomechanics, including the finite element method, are now added. Functional Neuroimaging in Whiplash Injury: New Approaches will continue to help patients, their relatives and friends, involved physicians, and others to understand this condition as a disease.