Short description
The rehabilitation of brain injury is a major new area for neuropsychologists. This text integrates scientific evidence with clinical applications, details effective clinical interventions for brian injury and disorder, and addresses a wide range of cognitive and behavioural impairments.
Long description
Written by leading experts in the field, this invaluable text situates the practice of cognitive and behavioral rehabilitation in the latest research from neurobiology and cognitive neuroscience. Initial chapters review current findings on neuronal injury, plasticity, and recovery. The volume next examines the neurobiology of core cognitive domains--attention, memory, language, visuospatial awareness, and executive functioning--focusing on the processes underpinning both healthy and impaired functioning. Highlighting the practical applications of the research, authors describe available interventions in each domain and set forth clear recommendations for clinical practice. Also addressed are ways to understand and manage challenging behaviors, such as aggression, that may emerge in brain-injured persons. The concluding chapter provides overall strategies for helping people recover from the two most common forms of acquired neurological disability: traumatic brain injury and stroke.
Review
The stated goal of the book is to bridge the long-standing chasm between advances in the fields of basic and cognitive neuroscience and the study and practice of rehabilitation....This volume accomplishes its goal by providing a series of expertly written, integrative analyses contributed by leading authorities in their fields....In this well organized and edited collection, the disorders are clearly delineated despite their multidimensional characteristics....For the neuroscientists doing basic work in the lab, this book will help them to envision the impact that their work may have in the creation of new more effective therapies, and for those who hope to develop and implement those therapies, this volume provides excellent guidance for future work. If the quality of the contributions in this volume is any indication, the future of the field is indeed very promising. -- Clinical Psychology Review The book is well organized....Although there are other books available on current rehabilitation practices and on basic brain and cognitive research, this is the one to read to gain a glimpse of how these fields may merge and grow to benefit persons with brain dysfunction. -- Journal of International Neuropsychological Society
Table of contents
- Ponsford, Introduction
- Kolb, Cioe, Neuronal Organization and Change after Neuronal Injury
- Kolb, Mechanisms of Cortical Plasticity after Neuronal Injury
- Ponsford, Willmott, Rehabilitation of Nonspatial Attention
- Glisky, Disorders of Memory
- Nadeau, Gonzalez Rothi, Rehabilitation of Language Disorders
- Aimola Davies, Disorders of Spatial Orientation and Awareness
- Unilateral Neglect
- Turner, Levine, Disorders of Executive Functioning and Self
- awareness
- Alderman, Disorders of Behaviour
- Ponsford, Rehabilitation Following Traumatic Brain Injury and Cerebrovascular Accident
- Ponsford, Concluding Comments