Outcome of Severe Damage to the Central Nervous System; Contents; Opening remarks; Scale, scope and philosophy of the clinical problem; Discussion; Mechanisms of functional loss and recovery in spinal cord damage; Discussion; Signs of plasticity and reconnection in spinal cord damage; Discussion; Recovery of motor function after lesions in motor cortex of monkey; Discussion; Cerebral blood flow and metabolism; Discussion; Assessment of severe damage to the brain by multiregional measurements of cerebral blood flow; Discussion; Can one predict outcome of medical coma?; Discussion
Assessment of psychosocial outcome after severe head injuryDiscussion; Recovery of function after brain injury in man; Discussion; Psychiatric outcome of localized head injury in children; Discussion; Outcome of head trauma: age and post-traumatic seizures; Discussion; Acquired dyslexia: patterns of deficit and recovery; Fact and theory in recovery from the aphasias; Discussion of the two preceding papers; Early neurophysiological assessment after insult to the central nervous system; Discussion; Prognostic factors in stroke; Discussion
Development of a formal structure for clinical management decisions : a mathematical analysisDiscussion; Prognosis after severe head injury; Discussion; General discussion; Mechanisms of recovery; Recovery curves; Closing comments; Closing remarks; Index of contributors; Subject index