1-Presidential Lecture.- Protective Effectiveness of Safety Helmets - Its Limitations in Preventing Diffuse Brain Injury.- 2-Prevention of Neurotrauma.- The Management of Acute Neurotrauma in Rural and Remote Locations - A Set of Guidelines for the Care of Head and Spinal Injuries.- Understanding Head Impact Tolerance as an Aid in Injury Prevention.- Countermeasures Against Head Injuries in Car Accidents.- 3-Disaster Assistance in Neurotrauma.- The Organization of Health Care in Civilian Disasters.- 4-Chronic Subdural Hematoma.- An Experimental Chronic Subdural Hematoma in Dogs - with a Brain Atropy Model.- Significance of Cholesterol Metabolites in Chronic Subdural Hematoma.- The Role of the Kallikrein-Kinin System in Chronic Subdural Hematoma.- Histochemical Profile of Chronic Subdural Hematoma from a Wound Healing Viewpoint.- The Role of Platelet-Activating Factor (PAF) in the Development of Chronic Subdural Hematoma.- Significance of Platelet-Activating Factor (PAF) and PAF - Acethylhydrolase in the Pathogenesis of Chronic Subdural Hematoma.- Coagulation and Fibrinolysis in Chronic Subdural Hematomas.- Fibrinolytic Activities of the Chronic Subdural Hematoma and Efficacy of the Antifibrinolytic Agent for the Chronic Subdural Hematoma.- Chronic Subdural Haematoma Experience with 2245 Cases.- Evaluation of Cerebral Blood Flow by SPECT in Patients with Chronic Subdural Hematomas.- Evolution from Acute Subdural Hematomas to Chronic Subdural Hematomas.- Chronic Subdural Hematoma Secondary to Traumatic Subdural Hygroma: Consequence or Coexistence?.- Development of Chronic Subdural Hematomas from Acute Thin Subdural Hematomas: Determinants of Their Evolution.- Surgical Treatment of Chronic Subdural Hematomas in Adults.- Consideration of Pathophysiology of Chronic Subdural Hematoma by Measurements of Cerebral Blood Flow Intracranial Pressure and EEG Topography.- Analysis of Intracerebral Stress Distribution and Its Effect on Regional Blood Flow in Chronic Subdural Hematoma.- Chronological Change in Biomechanical Indices of Chronic Subdural Hematoma During and After Closed Drainage - When Should Fluid Drainage Cease?.- Evolution of Surgical Treatment of Chronic Subdural Hematomas.- Chronic Subdural Hematoma in Adults as Compared with Aged Group.- Development and Treatment of Chronic Subdural Hematoma.- Chronic Subdural Hematoma Associated with Middle Cranial Fossa Arachnoid Cyst. Is Cyst Peritoneal Shunt Treatment of Choice?.- The Relationship Between Cephalic Index and Chronic Subdural Hematoma.- Analysis of MR Findings on Initial Stage of Chronic Subdural Hematoma - Evaluation of Proton Density Image.- Chronic Subdural Hematomas: Pathophysiological Studies with MR Imaging and SEP.- Antifibrinolytic Therapy of Chronic Subdural Hematomas.- The Treatment of Chronic Subdural Hematoma by Burr-Hole Craniostomy with or without Irrigation and Closed-System Drainage.- Analysis of 150 Cases with Chronic Subdural Hematoma in Adult on the Factors Related to Functional Outcome.- Postoperative Morphological Recovery of Deformed Brain in Cases with Chronic Subdural Hematoma: The Difference Between a Burr Hole Closed Drainage and a Burr Hole Irrigation.- Clinical Study on Recurrent Chronic Subdural Hematoma.- Zero Postoperative Recurrence Rates in Chronic Subdural Hematoma.- 5-Neuroimaging in Central Nervous System Injury.- MRI Analysis of Cerebral Contusions: Significance of Intraparenchymal Fluid-Blood Interface.- Assessment of Brainstem Distortion Associated with Supretentorial Lesions by Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Significance of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in Diffuse Axonal Injury.- MRI in Surgically Treated Cases of Post-Traumatic Cervical Myelopathy and Radiculopathy.- Diffuse Axonal Injury Caused by Traffic Accident - Long Term Serial CT Findings and Medicolegal Problem.- Comparison of MRI and X-ray CT Scan Findings in Patients with Serious Neurological Deficits Due to Head Injury.- The Clinical Study of Severe Diffuse Axonal Injury - A Prognostic Point of View from MRI Study in the Acute Stage.- Prediction of the Reversibility of the Brain Stem Dysfunction in Head Injury Patients: MRI and Auditory Brain Stem Response Study.- Neuroimaging of Cerebral Metabolism in Severe Diffuse Brain Injury in Chronic Stage: Part 2. MR Spectroscopy and Spectroscopic Imaging.- Cerebral Hemodynamics and Metabolism in Severe Diffuse Brain Injury in Chronic Stage: Positron Emission Tomography.- Effect of Decompressive Craniectomy on Regional Cerebral Blood Flow in Severe Head Trauma Patients Assessed by HMPAO SPECT.- Cerebral Blood Flow Measurement in Head Trauma Patients.- Validation Study of Skull Three-Dimensional Computed Tomographic Scans (3D-CT) in the Management of Head Injury.- 6-Cell Damage and Repair in Central Nervous System Injury.- Alteration of the Neurotransmitter Contents in the Rabbit Brain Functional Structures at Remote Period Following Experimental Mild Craniocerebral Trauma.- Traumatic Brain Damage Mediated by Excitatory Amino Acido Neurotransmitters: Glutamate Release from Contused Brain Tissue.- Neurofunctional Changes in Thalamic Neurons After Cortical Ablation in Adult Rats: Effect of Basic Fibroblast Growh Factor upon Thalamic Neurons.- An Experimental Study of the Evolution of Focal Axonal Injury.- Physiological Roles of Neurotrophic Factors in Brain Injury.- Effect of the Kappa Agonist CI-977 on Ischaemic Brain Damage and Cerebral Blood Flow After Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion in the Rat.- Roles of Free Radicals in the Self-Propagating Injury Within Injured Spinal Cord Tissue.- Transient Hypotension Induces Remote Neuronal Damage from the Primary Concussion in the Rat.- Cerebral Blood Flow and Glucose Metabolism Following Experimental Head Injury.- Secondary Damage of the Cerebal Cortex: Blood Flow and Metabolic Studies Hiroshi K.
Inoue.- Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor Prevents Retrograde Degeneration of the Thalamic Neurons After Ablation of the Somatosensory Cortex.- Treatment of Vasogenic Brain Edema by Vi Receptor Antagonist of Arginine Vasopressin.- 7-Experimental Studies.- The Acceleration-Deceleration Fractures of the Skull Base - An Experimental Study.- Experimental Study in Cerebral Venous Circulatory Disturbance: With Special Reference of Venous Hemorrhage.- Amelioration of Septal Cholinergic Neuronal Degeneration After Nerve Growth Factor Deprivation by Cytokine-Activated Astrocytes.- HSP72-Like Immunoreactivity After Fluid Percussive Brain Injury in the Rat: Relationship to Cell Type.- 8-Monitoring.- Contribution of Increased Cerebral Blood Volume to Post-Traumatic Intracranial Hypertension.- Cerebral Perfusion Pressure Management of Head Injury.- Continuous Monitoring of Transcranial Doppler Jugular Venous Oxygen Saturation and Quantitative EEG in Severe Head Injury TosraYUKi Shiogai.- Cerebral Hyperemia Prior to Acute Cerebral Swelling in Patients with Severe Brain Injuries: The Role of Transcranial Doppler Monitoring Zainal Muttaqin.- Investigation of Intracranial Haemodynamics by Means of Transcranical Doppler Ultrasonography After Severe Head Injury - A Clinical Study.- Outcome of Patients with Severe Head Injury - Evaluation by Cerebral Perfusion Pressure.- Toxicity of Nutritional Support in the Traumatic Brain Injured.- A New Potential Therapy for Treatment of Posttraumatic Brain Oedema Based on Haemodynamic Principles for Brain Volume Regulation.- How Low ICP Should Be Controlled in Acute Stage of Severe Head Injury Cases.- Improved Outcome from Traumatic Coma Using Ventricular CSF Drainage.- 9-Focal Injury.- Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Localization of Intracranial Hematomas.- CT-Guided Stereotactic Aspiration of Traumatic Intracerebral Hematomas.- Missile Brain Injuries: An Approach to the Management on the Basis of Experience with 106 Wounded Patients in Osijek General Hospital Over the 15 Month Period of War.- Prognosis in Patients with Post-Traumatic Intracerebral Hemorrhage Vs Contusion.- Head Injury Deaths - Intracranial Extracranial: What Is Unavoidable Death?.- 10-Acute Epidual and Subdrual Hematoma.- Temporal Tip Acute Epidural Hematoma - Its Diagnosis and Clinical Features.- PreUminary Results of Sequential Scans Tc-HM-PAO (SPECT) and CT in Patients with Post-Traumatic Asymptomatic Extradural Hematoma Who Have Been Operated Versus Patients Who Have Not Been Operated. A Multicentre Randomized Study in Northern Italy.- Rapid Spontaneously Disappearance of Acute Subdural Hematomas: Analysis of 31 Cases.- Treatment of Acute Subdural Hematoma Takashi Tokutomi.- Outcome of Acute Subdural Hematoma - Large Decompressive Craniectomy Vs Hematoma Irrigation with Trephination Therapy.- Re-Evaluation of Acute Subdural Hematomas by Using Recent Neuro-Imaging Studies.- 11-Diffuse Axonal Injury and Severe Head Injury.- Diagnostic Significance of Serum Neuron-Specific Enolase and Myelin Basic Protein Assay in Patients with Acute Head Injury.- Is Diffuse Axonal Injury a Clinical Entity?.- Analysis of 260 Cases of Severe Head Injury - Did an Aggressive Treatment Improve the Functional Outcome?.- Difficulties in Modellings Criteria Predicting Intracranial Hypertension in Severe Closed Head Injury.- A Mathematical Model for Outcome Prediction in Severe Head Injury.- 12-Pediatric Head Injury.- Neuropsychological Aspects of Severe Brain Contusions and Diffuse Axonal Damages in Children.- Assessment of Cerebral Contusion of Acute Subdural Hematoma in Children by MRI.- Diffuse Brain Injury in Children.- 13-Spinal Cord Injury.- Electrophysiological and Biochemical Study in the Acute Stages of Experimental Spinal Cord Injuries.- Modem Concepts in the Neurosurgical Treatment of Severe Thoraco-Lumbar Spine Injuries.- Late Results of Surgical Management of Thoraco-Lumbar Injuries with Kluger's Fixateur Inteme.- Lumbosacral Selective Posterior Rhizotomy for Lower Limb Spasticity in Adults.- Role of Birth Injury in Syringomyelia.- Effect of Methylpredonisolone on Spinal Cord Blood Flow After Spinal Cord Injury in Rats.- 14-Epidemiology Miscellaneous.- Neurotraumatology in West Africa - Burkina Faso's Experience.- Epidemiological Aspect of Chronic Subdural Haematoma Kehchi Kuwamura.- Management in Multitraumatized Patients with Head and Spine Injuries.- Decline in Mortality Following Head Injury: Results of a Better Treatment on the Scene of Accident and of New Indication for CT Scanning.- Coagulation and Fibrinolysis in Head Injury: An Analysis with New Molecular Markers.- Opioid Peptides and SP as Growth Factors for Neurons and Glial Cells CNS: Experimental Model in Culture.- Frozen Autograft Cranioplasty After Decompressive Craniectomy - Medical and Economical Benefits.- Indirect Traumatic Optic Neuropathy - Visual Outcome of Transcutaneously Electrostimulated Cases Sergey Yeolchijan.- A Case of Traumatic Aneurysm of the Lenticulostriate Artery Associated with Basal Ganglia Hemorrhage.- Author Index.