Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Pediatric traumatic brain injury : new frontiers in clinical and translational research / Vicki Anderson and Keith Owen Yeates -- Biomechanics of pediatric TBI / Susan S. Margulies and Brittany Coats -- Neurobiology of TBI sustained during development / Mayumi L. Prins, Christopher C. Giza, and David A. Hovda -- Using serum biomarkers to diagnose, assess, treat, and predict outcome after pediatric TBI / Rachel P. Berger ... [et al.] -- Clinical trials for pediatric TBI / P. David Adelson -- Advanced neuroimaging techniques in children with traumatic brain injury / Stephen Ashwal ... [et al.] -- Neurobehavioral outcomes of pediatric mild traumatic brain injury / Michael W. Kirkwood and Keith Owen Yeates -- Very long-term neuropsychological and behavioral consequences of mild and complicated mild TBI : increased impact of pediatric versus adult TBI / Erik Hessen -- Neurobehavioral outcomes of pediatric traumatic brain injury / H. Gerry Taylor -- Neuropscyhological rehabilitation in children with traumatic brain injuries / Ingrid van't Hooft -- Psychosocial interventions / Shari L. Wade -- Pediatric TBI : challenges for treatment and rehabilitation / Cathy Catroppa and Vicki Anderson -- Integrating multidisciplinary research for translation from the laboratory to the clinic / Bryan Kolb and Robbin Gibb.

"This book, New Frontiers in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury, aims to evaluate what we have learned about TBI in childhood to date and, perhaps more importantly to articulate the challenges we face and how we should go forward in the future"--Provided by publisher.