Neuroendocrine-Immune Correlates of Sleep and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

摘要: Unexpected crises have set the rhythm of our days after fall Berlin Wall, dismemberment Soviet Union and dissolution Warsaw Pact. In a world that still needs to find clear path be open toward future think about new possible, as recently stated by philosopher Bodei (2006), we unfortunately witnessed events September 11, 2001 in New York, March 2004 Madrid, July 19, 2005 London series armed conflicts, from Kosovo Sudan, East Timor Afghanistan, Iraq, Middle East. All these changes political climate brought an increase incidence traumatic brain injury (TBI) spinal cord (SCI) both soldiers civilians war zones terrorist attacks. TBI has proven unusually common current conflicts Iraq which body armor saves injuries would killed them past but cannot keep their brains banging against walls skulls (San Francisco Chronicle, 2004; USA Today, 4–6, 2005). The weapons preferred those attacking U.S. troops ordinary people—suicide terrorists, car bombs, land mines, improvised explosive devices, mortars—deliver precisely kind concussive blast can injure addition other parts or systems resulting physical, cognitive, psychological, psychosocial impairments functional disability, i.e., polytrauma (Lew There is little information on pattern neuroendocrine immune TBI, influence sleep. Moreover, closed mild may not readily apparent, particularly presence externally evident life-threatening conditions requiring immediate attention. However, once diagnosis obvious, rehabilitation lengthy process, encompassing range behavioral physiological functions direct adaptive function regulating bodily response past, present challenges.