Section 1. Setting the Scene: The Spectrum of Spinal Injury 1. Causes of spinal injury: motor vehicle accidents and beyond 2. Global aspects of traumatic spinal injury 3. Economics of traumatic spinal injury 4. Spinal cord injury and the risk of dying
Section 2. Cellular and Molecular Aspects 5. Spectrum of syndromes in spinal injury Central cord syndrome and beyond 6. Neuroinflammation in spinal cord injury 7. Spinal cord injury and cellular excitotoxicity 8. Cytokines and spinal cord injury 9. Cells and spinal cord injury: a focus on glial cells 10. Regenerative response of after spinal injury: propriospinal neurons and beyond 11. Astrocytes in spinal cord injury 12. Linking spinal cord injury and remodeling of the enteric neuromuscular compartment 13. Leukocyte gene expression and spinal cord injury 14. Angiotensin-(1-7) receptor Mas and spinal cord injury 15. Coenzyme Q10, Bax/Bcl2 and Spinal cord injury 16. Signalling pathways in spinal cord injury: a focus on ERK and AKT 17. Wnt signaling in spinal cord injury 18. Gene expression and spinal cord injury: a focus on the motor cortex 19. Glucose metabolism and gene expression in spinal cord injury 20. Receptors in spinal cord injury: a focus on glutamatergic and glycinergic receptors 21. Ion channel and receptors: gene expression and in spinal cord injury
Section 3. Physiological and Metabolic Effects 22. Hormonal events and spinal cord injury: a focus on vasopressin and natriuretic peptide 23. Linking sensorimotor plasticity, the motor cortex and spinal cord injury 24. Spinal cord injury-induced spasticity 25. Effects of spinal cord injury: Cerebral perfusion and autonomic cerebrovascular control 26. Skeletal muscle atrophy in spinal cord injury 27. Bone mass and spinal cord injury: risk of fracture
Section 4. Behavioural and Psychological Effects 28. PTSD and spinal injury 29. Health behaviors after spinal cord injury: alcohol use and beyond 30. Oxidative stress in spinal cord injury 31. Features of endoplasmic reticulum stress: applications to spinal cord injury 32. Health behaviors, people with spinal cord injury 33. Quality of life in cervical traumatic spinal cord injury 34. Empathy in spinal cord injury 35. Daily living measures in spinal cord injury