Executive and Attentional Problems

Psychological Approaches to Rehabilitation after Traumatic Brain Injury

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 193-223

  Evans, Jonathan J ^a  

^a GARTNAVEL ROYAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'internal' strategies; DEX Other score and DEX Other DEX Self score; Executive and attention deficit pathology; Executive and attention impairment rehabilitation; Executive and attentional problems; Nature of executive and attentional skills; Shallice and Burgess's model of fractionation of supervisory attention system; Test of Everyday Attention; Using problem solving framework

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956588212     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444301762.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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