Cognitive Rehabilitation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introductory Considerations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      • Lance E. Trexler

      Pages 3-6

   3. Neuropsychological Assessment of Brain Behavior Relationships: An Introduction

      • William J. Lynch

      Pages 7-25

   4. Behavioral and Cognitive Deficits in Cerebrovascular Accident and Closed Head Injury: Implications for Cognitive Rehabilitation

      • James D. Thomas, Lance E. Trexler

      Pages 27-61

   5. Emotional Consequences of Brain Injury

      • William J. Lynch

      Pages 63-76

3. Conceptualizing Cognitive Dysfunction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Principles of Cognitive Rehabilitation

      • James F. Craine

      Pages 83-98

   3. A Conceptual Framework for Interventive Cognitive Neuropsychology

      • Yigal Gross

      Pages 99-114

   4. The Relevance of Brain-Behavior Relationships for Rehabilitation

      • Eugene B. Piasetsky

      Pages 115-130

   5. Language-Cognitive Disorganization Following Closed Head Injury: A Conceptualization

      • Chris Hagen

      Pages 131-151

   6. Cognitive Perceptual Motor Evaluation Research Findings for Adult Head Injuries

      • Diane L. Meeder

      Pages 153-172

   7. Cognitive and Neuropsychological Aspects of Affective Change Following Traumatic Brain Injury

      • Lance E. Trexler

      Pages 173-197

4. Interventive Strategies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203

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   2. The Systematic Remediation of Specific Disorders: Selected Application of Methods Derived in a Clinical Research Setting

      • Eugene B. Piasetsky, Yehuda Ben-Yishay, Joseph Weinberg, Leonard Diller

      Pages 205-222

   3. Techniques and Application of Simultaneous Information Processing

      • Yigal Gross, Zila Ben-Nahum, Gabriel Munk

      Pages 223-238

   4. The Retraining of Frontal Lobe Dysfunction

      • James F. Craine

      Pages 239-262

   5. The Use of Electronic Games in Cognitive Rehabilitation

      • William J. Lynch

      Pages 263-274

5. Back Matter

   Pages 277-280

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The present volume has come about through an awareness of the absence of any cohesive and substantive source on the treatment of cognitive dysfunction following brain insult. I initiated the devel­ opment of our annual symposium Models and Techniques of Cognitive Rehabilitation, on which the present volume is based, so as to educate myself, as well as others, about the state of the art in modifying cognitive processes in the brain, injured. I became aware of the need for interventive strategies for the brain, injured while a graduate student. Brain functions had, for a long time, always fascinated me, but from an academic perspective. I was confronted with the clinical consequences of brain injury while administering batteries of neuro­ psychological tests, and this experience added another dimension to my interest in brain functions. I felt grossly inadequate because I was able to rather eloquently describe changes in brain-behavior relations with neuropsychological tests, but could only generate re­ commendations based solely on the use of compensatory strategies and occasionally on some unfounded, and probably naive, remedial guess. A literature search at this time yielded devastating, little informa­ tion. The next several years were characterized by a pseudo-obsession, occurring at times without total awareness, with methods and tech­ niques which might alter impaired brain-behavior relations. Completing graduate school, however, required that these thoughts take a secondary position relative to more typical graduate student thoughts.

• Cognitive Process
• Cognitive Processes
• awareness
• brain
• media
• rehabilitation
• school
• state
• treatment

• Neuropsychology Service Medical Psychology Department, Community Hospital of Indianapolis, Inc., Indianapolis, USA

  Lance E. Trexler

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