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Cognitive Rehabilitation: A Method For Improving Sustained And Selective Attention In Adolescents With Attentional Deficits, Glinda Rae Bullock
Cognitive Rehabilitation: A Method For Improving Sustained And Selective Attention In Adolescents With Attentional Deficits, Glinda Rae Bullock
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Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is an inherited neuropsychological disorder affecting 3% to 5% of the school-aged population of the United States and having no identified single cause. The primary treatment recommended for those suffering from attentional deficits is multimodal, which includes psychostimulant medication in the form of methylphenidate (Ritalin) and behavioral/educational interventions. However, there is a subset of sufferers who, though taking psychostimulant medications and undergoing behavioral and educational interventions, continue to suffer the symptoms of attentional deficits: distractibility, impulsiveness and aggressive behavior; Those affected by acquired brain injuries as the result of some external trauma or neurological disorder suffer …