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Neuropsychological Rehabilitation With Prospective Memory Process Training In A Patient With Severe Amnesia After Traumatic Brain Injury: A Casereport, Pin-Hsiu Chen, Ya-Fang Hsu, Wen-Chih Lin, Tai-Ching Wu
Neuropsychological Rehabilitation With Prospective Memory Process Training In A Patient With Severe Amnesia After Traumatic Brain Injury: A Casereport, Pin-Hsiu Chen, Ya-Fang Hsu, Wen-Chih Lin, Tai-Ching Wu
Rehabilitation Practice and Science
Patients with severe amnesia frequently experience difficulty in storing and retrieving new information, resulting in prospective memory impairment, one of the main reasons for sustained loss of functioning in daily life. Currently, little literature on the neuropsychological interventions for severe amnesia patients has been published. The present study applied prospective memory process training (PROMPT) in neuropsychological intervention to a patient with severe amnesia caused by traumatic brain injury, and investigated the efficacy of this method. The intervention was administered for 12 months long to a 23-year-old male participant with severe amnesia caused by traumatic brain injury. The intervention was administered …
Rehabilitation Effect Analysis Of Subacute Traumatic Brain Injury, Pao Huang, Jenhung Wang, Chihcheng Fan, Chungchao Liang, Shuman Lin, Clement Shihhsien Yang
Rehabilitation Effect Analysis Of Subacute Traumatic Brain Injury, Pao Huang, Jenhung Wang, Chihcheng Fan, Chungchao Liang, Shuman Lin, Clement Shihhsien Yang
Rehabilitation Practice and Science
Objective: Traumatic brain injury generally occurs when external force brings about damage to the tissues of the brain and is commonly accompanied by changes in the physical, cognitive, behavioral, and emotional domains of the affected person; such changes can result in social adaptation problems. Issues involving finance and/or family caregiver human resources also occur due to the fact that the survivor's disabilities linger. The primary goals of the present study are (1) to obtain an initial understanding of the rehabilitation services available to traumatic brain injury patients and (2) to analyze the effects of such rehabilitation on traumatic brain injury …