BRAIN INJURY – FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS, REHABILITATION AND PREVENTION Edited by Amit Agrawal Contents Preface IX Part 1 Funtional and Endocrine Aspects 1 Chapter 1 Mental Fatigue; A Common Long Term Consequence After a Brain Injury 3 Birgitta Johansson and Lars Rönnbäck Chapter 2 Brain Injury and Cerebral Lateralization 17 Şenol Dane Chapter 3 Technology-Based Approaches to Improve Mental Health Outcomes for Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury 27 Jane Topolovec-Vranic, Svetlena Taneva, Justin Shamis and Donna Ouchterlony Chapter 4 The Case of Hypopituitarism in Traumatic Brain Injury 49 Klose Marianne and Feldt-Rasmussen Ulla Part 2 Rehabilitation 73 Chapter 5 Use of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health in Brain Injury Rehabilitation 75 Pavel Ptyushkin, Gaj Vidmar, Helena Burger and Crt Marincek Chapter 6 The Impact of Intensive Community Based Rehabilitation on Community Participation and Life Satisfaction Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury 95 Steven Wheeler Chapter 7 Cognitive Recovery and Rehabilitation After Brain Injury: Mechanisms, Challenges and Support 121 Jesper Mogensen Chapter 8 Communicative Impairment After Traumatic Brain Injury: Evidence and Pathways to Recovery 151 Francesca M. Bosco and Romina Angeleri Chapter 9 Traumatic Brain Injury: Consequences and Family Needs 161 Edilene Curvelo Hora, Regina Márcia Cardoso de Sousa, Maria do Carmo de Oliveira Ribeiro, Mariangela da Silva Nunes, Rita de Cássia Vieira Araújo, Ana Carla Ferreira Silva dos Santos, Carla Kalline Alves Cartaxo and Liane Viana Santana Chapter 10 Traumatic Brain Injury: Short, Long, and Very Long-Term Vocational Outcomes 175 Kelli W. Gary and Keith B. Wilson Chapter 11 Driving After Traumatic Brain Injury: Closing the Gap Between Assessing, Rehabilitating and Safe Driving 199 Sylvain Gagnon, Andrea Jane Hickey and Shawn Marshall Part 3 Prevention 211 Chapter 12 Helmet Use for the Prevention of Brain Injuries in Motorcycle Accidents Concepció Fuentes-Pumarola, Carme Bertran, M. Eugènia Gras, Sílvia Font-Mayolas, David Ballester, Mark J. M. Sullman and Dolors Juvinyà Preface Brain injury remains one of the most difficult and challenging problems facing many researchers, clinicians and experts involved in care of these patients. The present two volume book “Brain Injury” is distinctive in its presentation and includes a wealth of updated information for professionals on the high quality research on many aspects in the field of brain injury as well as addresses the most difficult and challenging issues in the management and rehabilitation of brain injured patients. The Book One contains 5 sections and a total 26 chapters devoted to pathogenesis of brain injury, concepts in cerebral blood flow and metabolism, investigative approaches and monitoring of brain injured, different protective mechanisms and recovery and management approach to these individuals and Book Two contains (3 sections) 12 chapters devoted to functional and endocrine aspects of brain injuries, approaches to rehabilitation of brain injured and preventive aspects of traumatic brain injuries. In Book Two chapters’ discusses the issues of mental fatigue after brain injury, brain injury and cerebral lateralization, technology-based approaches to improve mental health outcomes in brain injured patients, endocrine sequel of traumatic brain injury. Many aspects of rehabilitation have been discussed and these include use of the international classification in brain injury rehabilitation, impact of community based rehabilitation, life Satisfaction following severe traumatic brain injury, cognitive recovery and rehabilitation, communicative impairment after traumatic brain injury, issues related to consequences and family needs, short, long, and very long-term vocational outcomes and safe driving. I hope that collective contribution from experts in brain injury research area would be successfully conveyed to the readers and readers will find this book to be a valuable guide to further develop their understanding about brain injury. I am grateful to all of the authors who have contributed their tremendous expertise to the present book, my wife and daughter for their passionate support and last but not least I wish to acknowledge the outstanding support from Mr. Bojan Rafaj, Publishing Process manager, InTech Open Science, Croatia who collaborated tirelessly in crafting this book. Dr Amit Agrawal Professor of Neurosurgery Department of Neurosurgery Narayna Medical College Hospital Nellore, India