Contents: - Neurotraumatology: Significance in Forensic Pathology - Biomechanical Aspects of Head Trauma: Head Modelling and Injury Mechanisms - Impact Traumatic Brain Injury: A Mechanical Perspective - Extraordinary Types of Contrecoup Injury - The Origin of Brain Stem Hemorrhages - Traumatic Brain Injury Regulates Expression of Ced-Related Genes Modulating Neuronal Apoptosis - Cytokine Gene Transcription Profiles in Contused Spinal Cord - Genomic Responses to Experimental Brain Injury: Implications for Therapeutic Intervention - Apolipoprotein E and Head Injury - Head Injury and Alzheimer-Type Pathology: Some Forensic Considerations - The Pathogenesis and Implications of Axonal Injury in Traumatically Injured Animal and Human Brain - Lesions of Axons and Dendrites in Spinal Cord Trauma - Axonal Injury in a Forensic-Neuropathological Material: Incidence, Vitality, Survival Time, Specificity and Biomechanics - De- and Regeneration Processes After Traumatic and Ischemic Lesions of Peripheral Nerves - Microglia: A "Sensor" of Pathology in the Human CNS - In Situ Staging of CNS White Matter Lesions - Microglial Reactions in Severe Closed Head Injury - Change of Gene Expression in the Rat Facial Nucleus by Axotomy - Cell Swelling and Effects of Alcohol in Experimental Neural Trauma - Mechanism of the Mass Effect in Cerebral Contusion: Role of Contusion Necrosis Proper - Biomechanical Markers of Central Nervous System Damage: Plasma S-100 Protein after Neurotrauma and Subarachnoid Haemorrhageweiterlesen