Approximately 1.5 million Americans incur an Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) each year due primarily to motor vehicle accidents, falls and strokes as well as anoxia, brain tumor, sports injuries, assaults, encephalitis, and exposure to toxic fumes. About 80,000 of these individuals experience long-term disabilities as a result of the ABI. The survival ...
Jersey Hatch can't remember if he rammed the car into his parents' house. He can't remember why his best friend won't speak to him. He can't remember the right words to have a real conversation. And he can't remember why he tried to shoot his own head off. Broken in both mind and body, Jersey must piece his life back together, step by ...
Executive disorders represent the most common and most troubling consequence of brain injury. These are disorders of the most sophisticated type, and notoriously difficult to assess, understand and rehabilitate. This book provides a concise and accessible review of best practice in the rehabilitation of executive disorders, that is, the ability to ...
As traditional treatment success rates for many persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are proving less than effective, clinicians search for other therapies that may be more productive. Alternate Therapies in the Treatment of Brain Injury and Neurobehavioural Disorders discusses at length various non-traditional treatment approaches such as ...
This updated new edition summarizes the latest developments in cognitive neuroscience related to rehabilitation, reviews the principles of successful interventions and synthesizes new findings about the rehabilitation of cognitive changes in a variety of populations. With greatly expanded sections on treatment and the role of imaging, it provides ...
This describes the early rehabilitation of the patient who has sustained a traumatic brain injury or a lesion of equal severity due to some other cause. The broad spectrum of treatment, ranging from the intensive care unit to the reeducation of walking, is presented in detail with over 600 photographs of actual patients.
A practical text that covers topics concerning both children and adults. It includes issues associated with prefrontal injury which is most common in traumatic brain injury. The text encourages and demonstrates methods of collaboration between professional and non-professionals.
Discover new interventions to restore self-respect and personal life control!When men suffer traumatic brain injury (TBI), they can lose their sense of competence, confidence, and masculinity, resulting in a gender role strain. Brain Injury and Gender Role Strain offers an innovative solution to help such men regain a masculine identity. This ...
Methodological Issues In Neuropsychological Assessment is intended to bridge the gap between the actual practice of studying the efficacy of neuropsychological remediation techniques on the one hand, and methodologies proposed by experts on the
Around 10 million people in the UK suffer from a neurological disorder, one million of whom are disabled by their condition. Neurological disorders that can affect cognitive functioning include stroke, head injury, multiple sclerosis and dementia. Historically the emphasis within neurology has been on diagnosis. Now, neurologists also have to ...
This book offers a rich, insider's viewpoint of the lived experience of brain injury. Sherry, a survivor of brain injury himself, uses a cross-disciplinary theoretical approach (drawing upon the social and medical models of disability and combining them with lessons from feminism, queen theory, postcolonial and postmodern literature) to frame an ...
"Rehabilitation For Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)" is a state-of-the-science review of the effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions. Leading experts conduct evidence-based reviews of specific areas of brain injury rehabilitation, summarizing what is known in each area, critiquing the methodological problems of studies in the area, and then ...
For clinicians providing cognitive rehabilitation that is relevant to both functional outcome and long-term adjustment, here is a treatment model and treatment strategies that will truly maximize readers' results. With this Second Edition, readers get the material needed to develop individualized strategies, improve the quality of readers' ...
The aim of neuropsychological rehabilitation is to enable people with cognitive, emotional, or behavioural deficits to achieve their maximum potential in the domains of psychological, social, leisure, vocational or everyday functioning. Describing the holistic programme devised and adopted at the world famous Oliver Zangwill Centre and embracing a ...
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