ABSTRACT
The following nine chapters of this volume address how diverse disciplines evaluate mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI). The range includes the physical perspective (electophysiological correlates, epilepsy, orbitofrontal syndrome), cognitive aspects (executive dysfunctioning, tests of malingering), and the emotional domain (mood disorders). Given this discipline-specific approach to evaluating MTBI, the aim of the present chapter is to explore how such discipline-specific approaches are anchored to a host of implicit assumptions about how we gain clinical knowledge.
