OBJECTIVE To explore the influence of level of functioning and cognitive status on outcome after rehabilitation for older people with different types of impairment. DESIGN An inception cohort study. SUBJECTS A total of 560 older people, mean age 80.0 years, participating in rehabilitation programmes in the Sydney area. METHODS Level of functioning using the Functional Independence Measure...

Current understanding of brain plasticity has lead to new approaches in ischemic stroke rehabilitation. Stroke units that combine good medical and nursing care with task-oriented intense training in an environment that provides confidence, stimulation and motivation significantly improve outcome. Repetitive trans-cranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), and trans-cranial direct current stimulation ...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the common causes of disability in physical, psychological, and social domains of functioning leading to poor quality of life. TBI leads to impairment in sensory, motor, language, and emotional processing, and also in cognitive functions such as attention, information processing, executive functions, and memory. Cognitive impairment plays a central role in...

Neuropharmacologic rehabilitation of cognitive deficits is a field waiting to be created. NIH, with its Roadmap Initiative for Translational Research, is pushing hard, but clinicians and scientists, for the most part, have yet to accept the challenge. The goal of this Special Issue is to document the current state of the art. As readers will note, most contributors conclude the field is just no...

Identifying the presence of cognitive impairment in patients admitted for inpatient rehabilitation is important as it may impact on their ability to participate in a rehabilitation program. The Folstein Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) has been used by clinicians as a cognitive screening tool for its convenience, even though it is not sensitive, and often fails to detect cognitive impairmen...

BACKGROUND Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has a significant impact on the burden of care within the South African setting, impacting on the individual, the family, and the community as a whole. Often the consequences of TBI are permanent, resulting in numerous financial and emotional stressors. OBJECTIVE This research focusses on the experience of outpatient cognitive rehabilitation groups for ...

objective neuropsychological impairment is an important co-morbidity of chronic epilepsy. the aim of this study was to determine the state of the cognitive and motor development of patients with refractory epilepsy. materials & methods  we studied 150 consecutive children with epilepsy who were referred to mofid children hospital, a third level public referral university hospital in tehran, ira...

Introduction One of the criticisms of rehabilitation techniques is their limited application to the patient's daily life. In the past, cinema has been used as a psychiatric rehabilitation tool, with the primary objective of facilitating training in social abilities and communication. In this study, we consider the use of film not only as a clinical recovery tool but also as a novel cognitive re...