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Cognitive rehabilitation is integral part of the neurorehabilitation of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Key features after TBI are cognitive (impaired attention and memory, slowed processing speed, deficit in working memory...
The practice of coma arousal and brain stimulation in vegetative state or minimally conscious state is becoming the focus of heated debate. There is no definite theory on which patients...
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can be pathophysiologically classified into either primary or secondary injury. It is an important resuscitation to prevent the secondary injury which includes hypoxia, hypotension, cerebral ischemia,...
Sometimes we heard that a person with persistent vegetative state could not change or suddenly recovered in terms of an emergence of purposeful movement or any form of communication. The...
Traumatic brain injury is caused by an impact on the head and results in cognitive, physical, neurobehavioral or emotional impairments. The severity of traumatic brain lesion depends on the direction,...
Neurobehavioral deficits, especially in cognition, are often the cause of significant disability after traumatic brain injury (TBI). A thorough evaluation of cognitive function is needed before an effective cognitive rehabilitation....
Neurobehavioral problems, such as cognitive deficits, agitation, depression, mania, anxiety, apathy, sleep disturbance, and fatigue are common after traumatic brain injury (TBI). There are increasing evidences that typical profile of...
Severe hypoglycemia leading to permanent brain damage is rare in non-diabetic population. We present one case where chronic alcoholism combined with prolonged fasting lead to such a state. A 51-year-old...
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the influence of associated medical diseases and complications on functional improvement after in-patient through stroke rehabilitation.
METHOD: We performed a retrospective analysis on medical records of 183 stroke...
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of computer-assisted cognitive training program (RehaCom®) on cognitive function of the patients with stroke.
METHOD: Fifty seven subjects with stroke (34 males, 23 females) were enrolled...