A true paradigm shift is taking place in the field of neurology. Earlier it was regarded as the science of exact diagnosis of incurable illnesses, re signed to the dogma that damage to the central nervous system could not be repaired: "Once development is complete, the sources of growth and regeneration ofaxons and dendrites are irretrievably lost. In the adult brain the nerve paths are fixed and immutable - everything can die, but nothing can be regenerated" (Cajal1928). Even then this could have been countered with what holds today: rehabilitation does not take place in the test tube, being...

A new book written by Pat Davies
The famous author of "Steps" "To Follow" describes in her new book the early rehabilitation of the patient who has sustained a traumatic brain injury or a lesion of equal severity due to some other cause. Illustrated with some 600 photographs of actual patients, the broad spectrum of treatment, ranging from the intensive care unit to the re-education of walking, is presented in detail. The recommended treatment programme advocated here has been used successfully for many years. Chapters are included on perceptual disturbances; positioning, moving and...