2 This paper describes the design of an interactive architecture of a web based Personal Healthcare System for cognitive rehabilitation which will be affordable, customizable and capable of delivering continuous, cognitive rehabilitation at home.

Cognitive impairments and depression have considerable impacts on rehabilitation, quality of life and mortality after stroke. The understanding of cognitive and mood impairments in old and, in particular, very old stroke patients is not sufficient. The knowledge of the frequency of neglect, its relation to other cognitive impairments is meager, in the elderly and late after stroke despite its k...

This paper is the first survey of the cognitive prosthetics field. Neurorehabilitation based on cognitive prosthetics is now reimbursed as a conventional therapy by many national insurance companies. The need for cognitive prosthetics is described in terms of gaps in rehabilitation methods, and a response to managed care limitations on duration of services. A definition is developed from work i...

In persons with schizophrenia, cognitive impairments are detectable as early as age 6 or 7 years, or the earliest age at which children receive any formal psychological tests.5-8 The underlying pathology is almost certainly present in some form at birth. By first grade, children in whom schizophrenia develops are already performing at nearly a full grade equivalent below their peers.5 There app...