
Cellular, Molecular, Physiological, and Behavioral Aspects of Spinal Cord Injury
- 1st Edition - August 18, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Rajkumar Rajendram, Victor R Preedy, Colin R. Martin
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 4 2 7 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 4 2 8 - 1
Spinal injury affects about 10 million people annually worldwide, impacting on the family unit and causing lifelong disabilities, with varied symptoms including paresthesia, sp… Read more
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Spinal injury affects about 10 million people annually worldwide, impacting on the family unit and causing lifelong disabilities, with varied symptoms including paresthesia, spasticity, loss of motor control, and often severe pain. Cellular, Molecular, Physiological, and Behavioral Aspects of Spinal Cord Injury will enhance readers’ understanding of the biological and psychological effects of spinal cord injury. Featuring chapters on gene expression, metabolic effects, and behavior, this volume discusses in detail the impact of spinal cord injury to better understand the underlying pathways and processes. The book has applicability for neuroscientists, neurologists, clinicians, and anyone working to better understand these injuries.
- Summarizes the neuroscience of spinal cord injury, including cellular and molecular biology
- Contains chapter abstracts, key facts, dictionary, and summary points to aid in understanding
- Features chapters on signaling and hormonal events
- Includes plasticity and gene expression
- Examines health and stress behaviors after spinal cord injury
I. Setting The Scene and Introductory Chapters
1. Causes of spinal injury: motor vehicle accidents and beyond
Joji Inamasu
2. MRI findings in spinal cord injury during acute and chronic phases
Syed Ather Enam, Kiran Aftab, Namrah Aziz, Batool Mujtaba, Asma Akbar Ladak and Fatima Mubarak
3. Exercise programs in spinal cord injury
Jeongmin Lee, Dong-il Kim and J. Jeon
4. Use of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation: features, facets and applications to incomplete spinal cord injury
Amanda Vitória Lacerda de Araujo
5. Neuromodulation and restoration of motor responses after severe spinal cord injury
G. Taccola
6. Rehabilitation and wheelchair users after spinal cord injury: an overview
Marcelo Riberto, Ligia Jia Lin Wu and Daniel Rubio de Souza
II. Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Spinal Injury
7. Gene expression, bone loss and spinal cord injury
A. Zamarioli
8. Sperm DNA fragmentation and its relevance to men with spinal cord injury
S. Johnston
9. Cytokines and spinal cord injury
Jesús Amo-Aparicio and Clara Penas
10. Interleukin-10, vascular pathology in traumatic cervical Spinal cord injury
Michael G. Fehlings
11. Protein Degradome in Spinal Cord Injury
S. Bsat, Hani Chanbour, Ali Amine, Charbel Moussalem, Mohamad Nabih El Housheimy, Sarah Kawtharani, Adham Halaoui, Firas H. Kobaissy, Safwan Alomari and Ibrahim Omeis
12. Proteomics of Pressure Ulcers in Spinal cord injury
M. Barderas
13. Innate immune responses of glia and inflammatory cells in spinal cord injury
Stella Elkabes, Lun Li, Cigdem Acioglu and Robert Heary
14. The role of oxidative stress in spinal cord injury animal models: a focus on nuclear factor erythroid-2 related factor 2
Fernando da Silva Fiorin, Caroline Cunha do Espírito-Santo and L.F.F. Royes
15. Novel agent ONO-2506 suppresses astrocytic activation and attenuates post-spinal cord injury pain
Hiroyuki Ishiguro and Takashi Kaito
16. Histology, neural tissue loss and compression-induced spinal cord injury
Jaroslav Pavel
17. Remodeling mitochondrial transport and cellular energetics in axonal regeneration and spinal cord injury
Ning Huang and Zu-Hang Sheng
18. Neurotrophins and their Role in Axonal Outgrowth Following Spinal Cord Injury
Darren Svirskis, Anusha Dravid and Simon O'Carroll
19. The neuroscience of transient receptor potential vanilloid type 4 (TRPV4) and spinal cord injury
I. Han and Hemant Kumar
20. Autoantibodies in spinal cord injury
Daniel Garcia-Ovejero, Lukas Grassner, Eduardo Molina-Holgado and Angel Arevalo-Martin
21. Calpain role in the pathophysiology of spasticity after spinal cord injury
Frédéric Brocard
22. Targeting mTOR Signaling to Promote Autophagy for Functional Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury
Nadia Al-Sammarraie and Swapan K. Ray
23. Tertiary damage: Hippocampal and brain changes after spinal cord injury
Florencia Labombarda
III. Physiological and Metabolic Effects
24. Hormonal events and spinal cord injury: a focus on vasopressin and natriuretic peptide
Charles Hubscher
25. Linking sensorimotor plasticity, the motor cortex and spinal cord injury
R. Nardone
26. Bone mass and spinal cord injury: risk of fracture
Ifaz T. Haider, Narina Simonian, Thomas Schnitzer and W. Brent Edwards
27. Functional and morphological re-organization of the brain following spinal cord injury : Insights from MRI
Maria M. D'Souza, Jeanne D'Souza, Prabhjot Kaur and Pawan Kumar
28. Cardiometabolic changes and upper extremity exercise as an augmentative strategy in spinal cord injury
Benjamin Scoblionko, Patricia Orme, James Pendleton, Roger Liu and James J. Bresnahan
29. Electrophysiological outcome measures in spinal cord injury: a new narrative
Radha Korupolu, Argyrios Stampas, Sudha Tallavajhula and Lumy Sawaki
30. Features and Physiology of Spinal Stretch Reflex Pathways in People with Chronic Spinal Cord Injury
Aiko K. Thompson and Thomas Sinkjær
31. Metabolic syndrome iin spinal cord injury: impact on health
Arcangelo Barbonetti, Chiara Castellini, Sandro Francavilla, Felice Francavilla and Settmio D’Andrea
32. Body composition and spinal cord injury
Katherine Jane Desneves, Nicole Kiss, Robin Daly and Leigh Ward
33. Energy requirements and spinal cord injury
Katherine Jane Desneves, Nicole Kiss, Robin Daly and Leigh Ward
34. Virtual walking and spinal cord injury neuropathic pain
Elizabeth Richardson and Zina Trost
35. Cervical spinal cord injury and thermoregulatory processes: a new narrative
Ibrahim Omeis
36. Spinal cord injury and the gut microbiota
Phillip G. Popovich and Kristina A. Kigerl
IV. Behavioural and Psychological Effects
37. Risk factors and predictors of depression after spinal cord injury: emphasis on the inflammatory process
Caroline Cunha do Espírito-Santo, Fernando da Silva Fiorin and L.F.F. Royes
38. Spirituality, hope, and resilience in the recovery and adaptation process following spinal cord injury
Kate Jones and Grahame Simpson
39. Wellness intervention for spinal cord injuries
Stephanie L. Silveira, Emma Richardson and Robert W. Motl
40. Sexual satisfaction and spinal cord injury
Seçil Taylan
41. Depressive symptoms in rehabilitation, spinal cord injury
Swati Mehta
42. Self-Harm behaviors in Patients with Spinal Cord Injuries: From Nonadherence to Suicide
Maggi Budd, Herb Ames and John Bradley
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 18, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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Rajkumar Rajendram
Dr Rajkumar Rajendram is a clinician scientist with a focus on internal medicine, anaesthesia, intensive care and peri-operative medicine. He graduated with distinctions from Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas Medical School, King’s College London in 2001. As an undergraduate he was awarded several prizes, merits and distinctions in pre-clinical and clinical subjects.
Dr Rajendram began his post-graduate medical training in general medicine and intensive care in Oxford. He attained membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in 2004 and completed specialist training in acute and general medicine in Oxford in 2010. Dr Rajendram subsequently practiced as a Consultant in Acute General Medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
Dr Rajendram also trained in anaesthesia and intensive care in London and was awarded a fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FRCA) in 2009. He completed advanced training in regional anaesthesia and intensive care. He was awarded a fellowship of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FFICM) in 2013 and obtained the European diploma of intensive care medicine (EDIC) in 2014. He then moved to the Royal Free London Hospitals as a Consultant in Intensive Care, Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine. He has been a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCP Edin) and the Royal College of Physicians of London (FRCP Lond) since 2017 and 2019 respectively. He is currently a Consultant in Internal Medicine at King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Heath Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Dr Rajendram’s focus on improving outcomes from Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has involved research on point of care ultrasound and phenotypes of COVID-19. Dr Rajendram also recognises that nutritional support is a fundamental aspect of medical care. This is particularly important for patients with COVID-19. As a clinician scientist he has therefore devoted significant time and effort into nutritional science research and education. He is an affiliated member of the Nutritional Sciences Research Division of King’s College London and has published over 400 textbook chapters, review articles, peer-reviewed papers and abstracts.
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Victor R Preedy
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