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Rehabilitation Of Cognitive Functions

Author: Shubham Mod
by Shubham Mod
Posted: Jan 06, 2016

Although rehabilitation is commonly thought of as relating primarily to motor retraining, the most disabling aspects of injury to the nervous system often relate to impairments in other domains, such as autonomic, sensory, and especially cognitive functions. Most major neuropsychological syndromes,such as aphasia, apraxia, visual agnosia, or neglect, have been identified in the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. Many of the original reports described the course of spontaneous recovery and proposed specific rehabilitative measures. During the last 25 years the field of rehabilitation of cognitive functions has expanded rapidly.If you want to know more about rehabilitation process than visit these rehabilitation center in north los vegas. The annual number of publications concerning neuropsychological rehabilitation, including aphasia therapy, has increased from about 100 in 1980 to over 500 in 2004, with a steep increase beginning around. A small but important part of this increase can be accounted for by studies of specific neuropsychological syndromes. Most of the studies published in the early 1980s concerned aphasia, which continued to be investigated and experienced a 2-fold increase between 1980 and 2004. In recent years, research in other cognitive syndromes has grown even faster. Unilateral neglect, very little investigated in the 1980s, witnessed a 10-fold increase by 2004. This current expansion of rehabilitation studies of specific syndromes is linked to the application of cognitive models to rehabilitation and to a better understanding of post-lesional plasticity as apparent in functional imaging studies. However, most of the impressive increase in studies of neuropsychological rehabilitation was due to studies of disease-specific rehabilitation.

Thus, rehabilitation of traumatic brain injury, stroke, tumors, degenerative diseases such as Parkison’s disease or progressive diseases such as multiple sclerosis are increasingly investigated in their own rights. This type of research requires more than ever a multidisciplinary approach to neuropsychological rehabilitation, with close interactions between physicians, neuropsychologists, speech therapists, and physiotherapists and occupational therapists. The chapters on rehabilitation of cognitive functions and on disease-specific rehabilitation demonstrate the necessity and the putative strength of evidence-based approaches. Although we need to understand the mechanisms underlying recovery from cognitive deficits, we also must have proof of the efficacy of our interventions. Specific fields, such as aphasia and neglect rehabilitation, have started accumulating this type of evidence. However, many more studies, and in particular large-scale multicenter investigations, are needed and should be carried out during the next decade.

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