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Pre and Post Neuropsychological test Results I st Neuropsychological Evaluation
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Neuropsychological rehabilitation is based on the nature and scope of neuropsychological symptoms identified through structured interviews and standardized tests. Here, the focus is to understand brain injury recovery phases and effectively deal with post injury grief-bereavement process. We wanted to test the effect of neuropsychologi...
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... cognitive retraining sessions, as shown in Table 2 a detailed neuropsychological evaluation was done for lateraliza- tion and localization of brain functions which included MMSE 8 where the patient scored 24/30 indicating mild impairment in orientation; Verbal Scale 9 where the scores are as following: (general knowledge = 106, attention and concentration = 86, working memory = 66, comprehension = 51) overall PQ = 82 and VIQ = 83 indicative of low average intellectual function- ing; Alexander Pass Along test 14 where he scored IQ = 58 in- dicative of intellectual disability in practical ability (compare the above scores with an average of 90-110 IQ points 15 ) and Mukundan's neuropsychological battery 11 where his frontal/ prefrontal lobe functions were found to be impaired (working memory, abstract intelligence, ideational fluency, set shifting and orbito-frontal functions), while in parietal lobe he had visuo-constructive impairment. In temporal lobe he suffered from mild impairment in visual comprehension and auditory perseveration. ...
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... gradually with extensive holistic neuropsychological rehabilitation approach, after a year, there was an immense improvement in his cognitive, social and emotional well-being as he was taking care of his activities of daily living (brushing, bathing, grooming etc) along with attempts to hold on the job and social relationship as he was able to communicate his distress to his female cousin with whom he was close and com- fortable. A present telephonic interview with the care givers indicated that he is now in a hetero-sexual relationship show- ing that now he is in a position to form a relationship, recipro- cate the same and can fulfill his internal urges (interpreted as a continuous dynamic social, emotional and cognitive recovery) thereby improving his quality of life (Table 2). ...
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... Neuro-rehabilitation and neuro-education are two nascent scientific disciplines that are informed by research from cognitive neuroscience and behavioral psychology (Taub et al., 2002;Devonshire and Dommett, 2010;Ansari et al., 2012;Hook and Farah, 2012). The main aim of neuro-rehabilitation is to ameliorate dysfunctional cognitive and brain functions caused by disease or injury (Robertson and Fitzpatrick, 2008;Nehra et al., 2014). In contrast, neuro-education seeks to create a better understanding of how we learn and how knowledge about the functional properties of the brain can be harnessed to create more effective teaching methods, curricula, and educational policies (Hardiman et al., 2009;Carew and Magsamen, 2010). ...
Educators and therapists in the Arab world have not been able to benefit from the recent integration of basic behavioral science with neuroscience. This is due to the paucity of basic research on Arabic. The present study is a step toward establishing the necessary structure for the emergence of neuro-rehabilitory and educational practices. It focuses on the recent claim that consonants and vowels have distinct representations, carry different kinds of information, and engage different processing mechanisms. This proposal has received support from various research fields, however it suprisingly stops short of making any claims about the time course of consonant and vowel processing in speech. This study specifically asks if consonants and vowels are processed differentially over time, and whether these time courses vary depending on the kind of information they are associated with. It does so in the context of a Semitic language, Arabic, where consonants typically convey semantic meaning in the form of tri-consonantal roots, and vowels carry phonological and morpho-syntactic information in the form of word patterns. Two cross-modal priming experiments evaluated priming by fragments of consonants that belong to the root, and fragments of vowels belonging to the word pattern. Consonant fragments were effective primes while vowel fragments were not. This demonstrates the existence of a differential processing time course for consonants and vowels in the auditory domain, reflecting in part the different linguistic functions they are associated with, and argues for the importance of assigning distinct representational and processing properties to these elements. At broader theoretical and practical levels, the present results provide a significant building block for the emergence of neuro-rehabilitory and neuro-educational traditions for Arabic.
Background and Aim
The development of functional promotion methods in military tactics, especially shooting, is essential for the military. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of neuropsychological rehabilitation on the improvement of cognitive function related to accuracy and attention in military shooters with moderating effect of organism constraint.
Methods
The current study was a quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and retention design with control group, it was performed on 64 military shooters aged 25 to 34 (32 people with competitive state anxiety and 32 people without competitive state anxiety). Participants were randomly selected from a military base in Tehran, Iran and were purposefully divided into four groups 1) experimental without competitive state anxiety, 2) control without competitive state anxiety, 3) experimental with competitive state anxiety and 4) control with competitive state anxiety. Experimental groups received neuropsychological rehabilitation for 7 weeks in addition to shooting training (three sessions per week). Control groups participated only in shooting training. Competitive state anxiety was considered as moderator of organism constraint. Instruments included neuropsychological rehabilitation program, the continuous performance test and the cox competitive state anxiety inventory.
Results
Results of data analyzed by repeated measures ANOVA showed a significant difference between the mean scores commission error, omission error and hit reaction time of the pre-test and post-test experimental and control groups. the experimental group without competitive state anxiety as well as the experimental group without competitive state anxiety, showed significant improvements in cognitive functions related to accuracy and attention following neuropsychological interventions; while no change was observed in the control groups (p<0/001). Competitive state anxiety also contributed to differences among groups.
Conclusion
According to the findings of this study neuropsychological rehabilitation can be applied as an efficient method to the improvement of cognitive function related to accuracy and attention in military shooters in status without competitive state anxiety and with competitive state anxiety.
Keywords: Cognitive Function, Attention Training, Neuropsychology, Reaction Time
Objective:
To provide a brief and comprehensive summary of recent research regarding psychological interventions for patients surviving a traumatic brain injury.
Methods:
A bibliographical search was performed in PubMed, Cochrane Library, PsycNET, Scopus, ResearchGate, and Google Scholar online databases. Analysis included distribution by year of publication, age stage of participants (paediatric, adult), location of the research team, study design, type of intervention, and main outcome variables.
Results:
The initial search eliciting 1541 citations was reduced to 62 relevant papers. Most publications had adult samples (88.7%). The United States outstands as the country with more research (58.1%); Latin America countries provided no results. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) was the most widely used approach for treatment of (sub)clinical mental disturbances (41.9%). Neuropsychological interventions were scarce (4.8%). Outcome measures included psychiatric disorders (e.g., posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety) (37.1%), postconcussive symptoms (16.1%), cognitive and functional deficits (48.1%), and social and psychological dimensions (62.9%).
Conclusions:
CBT outstands as the preferred therapeutic approach for treating behavioural and emotional disturbances. Also, other related therapies such as dialectical behaviour, mindfulness, and acceptance and commitment therapies have been proposed, and probably in the years to come, more literature regarding their effectiveness will be available. On the other hand, evidence showed that interventions from the field of neuropsychology are minimal if compared with its contribution to assessment. Future research should be aimed at performing studies on more diverse populations (e.g., nonmilitary communities and paediatric and Latin American populations) and at controlling designs to examine the therapeutic efficacy of psychotherapeutic and neurocognitive rehabilitation interventions and compare amelioration by injury severity, age of patients, and clinical profile, in the hopes of creating better guidelines for practitioners.
