Clinical Assessment of Brain Disorders

assessment of the efficiency of s.p.g.c refineries using network dea

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a powerful tool for measuring relative efficiency of organizational units referred to as decision making units (dmus). in most cases dmus have network structures with internal linking activities. traditional dea models, however, consider dmus as black boxes with no regard to their linking activities and therefore do not provide decision makers with the reasons...

Clinical assessment of patients with disorders of consciousness.

The study of pathological impairments of consciousness, as they can appear in severely brain injured patients, can be particularly useful to better clarify cognitive processes and cerebral substrates which underlie consciousness. In this review, we will introduce the disorders of consciousness that can be presented by severely brain-injured patients and the behavioural scales that can be used t...

Acoustic assessment of neurogenic voice disorders in a clinical setting

A new tool for the computerized clinical assessment of neurogenic voice disorders is presented. It is part of a more comprehensive PC-based system for the diagnosis of speech impairments in patients with neurologic disorders, including modules for the assessment of speech rate, fluency, and articulation, in addition to the voice module. The design of this instrument is optimized with regard to ...

Neurobehavioural disorders after traumatic brain injury: assessment, treatment and outcome.

Neurobehavioural Disorders after Traumatic Brain Injury: Assessment, Treatment and Outcome

The World Health Organisation has predicted that traumatic brain injury (TBI), will constitute the third largest contributor to the global burden of disease and disability (after heart disease and depression) by 2015 (Murray & Lopez, 1997). The significance of this lies not simply in the number of cases likely to need rehabilitation and social care but also the complex pattern of disability ass...