Intro; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; 1: Introduction; 1.1 General Aspects; 1.1.1 The Term "Whiplash Injury"; 1.1.2 Symptoms; 1.2 Incidence; 1.3 Historical Aspects; 1.3.1 Barré's "Syndrome Sympathique Cervical Postérieur"; 1.3.2 The Term "Railway Spine"; 1.3.3 Maurice Ravel; 1.4 Biomechanics; 1.4.1 General Aspects; 1.4.2 Protection Systems to Avoid Whiplash Injury; 1.4.3 Sequence of Phases During a Typical Whiplash Injury; 1.4.4 Timing of Neck Muscle Contraction; 2: Diagnostics; 2.1 Diagnostic Procedure After Whiplash Injury; 2.2 New Iteration Algorithms

2.3 Stereotaxic Atlas of Talairach and Tournoux2.4 Other Stereotaxic Atlas Systems; 2.4.1 Computerized Brain Atlas; 2.4.2 Montreal Atlas; 2.5 Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM); 2.6 Control Group; 3: Current Research Data; 3.1 Mild Traumatic Brain Injury; 3.1.1 General Aspects; 3.1.2 Special Cases; 3.1.2.1 Bicycle Accident; 3.1.2.2 Car Accident; 3.2 Whiplash Injury; 3.2.1 Early Studies from Otte et al.; 3.2.2 Studies from Bicik/Radanov et al.; 3.2.3 Newer Studies from 2002 to 2012; 3.2.4 Latest Studies: Whiplash Revisited

3.3 3D Visualization of Regions of Cerebral Activation and Deactivation3.4 Excursus on Functional Brain Regions; 3.5 Differential Diagnostic List; 3.6 Whiplash Trauma and the Risk of Alzheimer's Disease; 4: Conclusion; 4.1 The Dilemma; 4.2 Future Research; 5: Clinical Aspects; About the Author; Bibliography