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Neuropsychological Rehabilitation / edited by Nicole Steinbüchel, Detlev Yves Cramon, Ernst Pöppel.

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The neuropsychological rehabilitation of patients with acquired brain injury, an important domain of modern medicine and psychology, is the subject of this book. The state-of-the-art summary by scientists from eight different countries covers all important areas from basic research to therapy. A uni...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Steinbüchel, Nicole
Other Authors: Cramon, Detlev Yves, Pöppel, Ernst
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1992.
Subjects:
Philosophy (General)
Neurology.
Nervous system > Surgery.
Rehabilitation.
Table of Contents:
  • Basic Hypotheses
  • Neuropsychological Rehabilitation from a Theoretical Point of View
  • Cortical Representational Plasticity: Some Implications for the Bases of Recovery from Brain Damage
  • Biological and Psychosocial Considerations in Recovery from Brain Damage
  • Discussion: Environmental and Experiential Factors Play a Key Role in Determining the Outcome of Injury to the Central Nervous System
  • Controversial Concepts of Rehabilitation
  • A Neurobehavioural Approach to Brain Injury Rehabilitation
  • Neuropsychological Rehabilitation and the Problem of Altered Self-Awareness
  • Setting up a Neurorehabilitation Unit
  • Discussion: Controversial Concepts of Rehabilitation
  • Methodology
  • Research Design in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
  • Evaluation of Neuropsychological Therapies: The Importance of Measurement
  • Discussion: Evaluation in Constructing Neuropsychological Treatments
  • Diagnostics
  • Psychometric Evaluation of Neuropsychological Test Performances
  • Assessment of Mild, Moderate, and Severe Head Injury
  • The Amsterdam-Nijmegen Everyday Language Test (ANELT)
  • Discussion: Brain Damage and Rehabilitation: A Neuropsychological Approach
  • Various Approaches for Treatment
  • Early Treatment of Stroke in Man
  • Minimising Brain Damage from Head Injury by Appropriate Early Management
  • Cognitive Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation
  • The Personal Level in Cognitive Rehabilitation
  • A Family-System Approach to Brain Damage
  • Discussion: Various Approaches for Treatment
  • Specific Treatment of Specific Deficits
  • Impairments of Attention in Brain-Damaged Patients
  • Assessment and Management of Memory Problems
  • The Influence of Cognitive Remediation Programme on Associated Behavioural Disturbances in Patients with Frontal Lobe Dysfunction
  • Post-stroke Depression: Psychological and Biochemical Interactions
  • Spontaneous Remission versus Rehabilitation of Aphasia
  • Speech Disturbances of Organic and Functional Genesis and Their Therapy
  • Therapy of Aphasia
  • Various Approaches in Comparison
  • Discussion: Treatment of Specific Deficits.

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