The Effectiveness of Rehabilitation for Cognitive Deficits

Cognitive rehabilitation has become an established and influential therapeutic approach- this book assesses the effectiveness of the interventions allowing the reader to make up their mind as to what does and doesn't work The book includes chapters by many of the leaders in this field, providing authoritative and practical advice from the experts Many patients with brain damage are left with a range of neuropsychological deficits that impair the normal cognitive process we so often take for granted. It is generally recognised that these less obvious cognitive deficits (including memory, language, perception, attention and executive disorders) militate against full recovery often to a greater extent than more traditional medical deficits (e.g. paralysis, sensory loss, etc). Recognition of this has helped fuel the exponential growth in cognitive neuropsychology and neuroscience over the past 30 years. In turn, this theoretical approach has been used to guide and inform the development of cognitive therapies designed to remediate cognitive impairments and their functional consequences. Cognitive rehabilitation has over the last decade grown to become an established and influential therapeutic approach. There is now a considerable body of knowledge describing the principles and theoretical basis for analysing and directing treatments to selective cognitive deficits. Despite this, the clinical effectiveness and extent to which cognitive theory can inform therapeutic treatment has been questioned. It is timely, therefore, to evaluate and discuss the type and quality of evidence used in support of cognitive rehabilitation. In this book, some of the most influential clinicians and cognitive neuroscientists in the world critically review and discuss the effectiveness of rehabilitation methods currently used to treat patients with cognitive impairments following acquired brain damage. It provides a much needed critique and consensus about what should constitute best practice. The book will be valuable for all those who have to deal with the neuropsychological and neurological effects of brain damage, including, neuropsychologists, neuropsychiatrists, neurologists, experimental pscyhologists, and neuroscientists. CONTENTS 1 Peter W Halligan & Derick T Wade: Introduction Historical and Conceptual Issues 2 George Prigatano: A history of cognitive rehabilitation 3 Max Coltheart, Ruth Brunsdon & Lyndsey Nickels: Cognitive rehabilitation and its relationship to cognitive-neuropsychological rehabilitation 4 Catherine A Mateer: Fundamentals of cognitive rehabilitation 5 Derick T Wade: Applying the WHO ICF framework to the rehabilitation of patients with cognitive deficits 6 Keith D Cicerone: Methodological issues in evaluating the effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation Attentional Disorders 7 Elizabeth Styles: Attentional behaviour: varieties, deficits and theoretical accounts 8 Adriaan H van Zomeren & Joke M Spikman: Testing speed and control: the assessment of attentional impairments 9 Norman W Park & Erica Barbuto: Treating attentional impairments: review with a particular focus on naturalistic action rehabilitation 10 McKay M Sohlberg: Can disabilities from attentional impairments be effectively treated? Memory Disorders 11 Hans J Markowitsch: The neuroanatomy of memory 12 Veronica Bradley, Narinder Kapur & Jonathan J Evans: The assessment of memory 13 Elizabeth L Glisky: Can memory impairment be effectively treated? 14 Barbara A Wilson: The effective treatment of memory-related disabilities Spoken Language Disorders 15 David Howard: Language: cognitive models and functional anatomy 16 Lyndsey Nickels: Tried, tested and trusted? Language assessment for rehabilitation 17 Anna Basso: Language deficits: the efficacy of impairment-based treatments 18 Jane Marshall: Can speech and language therapy affect activity and participation levels? A review of the literature Executive Disorders 19 Paul W Burgess & Jon S Simons: Theories of frontal lobe executive function - clinical applications 20 John H Crawford & Julie D Henry: Assessment of executive dysfunction 21 Jonathan J Evans: Can executive impairments be effectively treated? 22 Andrew Worthington: Rehabilitation of executive deficits: effective treatment of related disabilities Cognitive Rehabilitation Theory 23 Argye E Hillis: For a theory of cognitive rehabilitation: progress in the decade of the brain 24 Ian H Robertson: The neural basis for a theory of cognitive rehabilitation Pathology-based Outcomes 25 Nancy Carney & Hugo du Coudray: Cognitive rehabilitation outcomes for traumatic brain injury 26 Nadina Lincoln: Outcome of cognitive rehabilitation in clinical stroke services 27 Linda Clare: Cognitive rehabilitation in early-stage dementia: evidence, practice and future directions CONTRIBUTORS: Erica Barbuto, York University, Toronto ON, Canada Anna Basso, Neurology Department, University of Milan, Milan, Italy Veronica Bradley, Hurstwood Park Neurological Centre, Haywards Heath, UK Ruth Brunsdon, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Paul W Burgess, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College, London, UK Nancy Carney, Div of Medical Informatics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland OR, USA Keith D Cicerone, JFK-Johnson Rehabilitation Institute, Edison NJ, USA Linda Clare, School of Psychology, University of Wales, Bangor, UK Max Coltheart, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia John H Crawford, Dept of Psychology, King's College, University of Aberdeen, UK Hugo du Coudray, Div of Medical Informatics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland OR, USA Jonathan J Evans, Dept of Psychological Medicine, Gartnavel Royal Hospital, Glasgow, UK Elizabeth L Glisky, Dept of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ, USA Peter W Halligan, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Julie D Henry, School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Argye E Hillis, Dept of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore MD, USA David Howard, School of Education, Communication & Language Sciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Narinder Kapur, Dept of Neuropsychology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK Nadina Lincoln, School of Psychology, University of Nottiingham, Nottingham, UK Hans J Markowitsch, Dept of Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany Jane Marshall, Dept of Language & Communication Science, City University, London, UK Catherine A Mateer, Dept of Psychology, Univesity of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada Lyndsey Nickels, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Norman W Park, York University, Toronto ON, USA George Prigatano, Dept of Clinical Neuropsychology, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix AZ, USA Ian H Robertson, Dept of Psychology, Trinity College, Dublin, Eire Jon S Simons, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College, London, UK McKay M Sohlberg, Dept of Applied & Behavioural Communication Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene OR, USA Joke M Spikman, Neuropsychology Unit, University Hospital Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Elizabeth Styles, Oxford, UK Adriaan H van Zomeren, Neuropsychology Unit, University Hospital Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Derick T Wade, Oxford Centre for Enablement, Oxford, UK Barbara A Wilson, MRC- Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK Andrew Worthington, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust, West Heath, Birmingham, UK Edited by Peter Halligan, Department of Psychology, University of Wales at Cardif and Derick Wade, Oxford Centre for Enablement, University of Oxford