Effectiveness of neuropsychological rehabilitation in acquired brain injury (I): Attention, processing speed, memory and language;Efectividad de la rehabilitación neuropsicológica en el daño cerebral adquirido (I): Atención, velocidad de procesamiento, memoria y lenguaje

Revista de Neurologia

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 687-698

  De Noreña, David ^a   Ríos Lago, Marcos ^a,b,c   Bombín González, Igor ^d,e,f   Sánchez Cubillo, Ignacio ^g   García Molina, Alberto ^h   Tirapu Ustárroz, Javier ⁱ  

^a Section of Hand Surgery   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^c Instituto de Salud Carlos III   (Spain)

^d Centro de Rehabilitación Neurológica   (Spain)

^e Neurological Rehabilitation Center   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^g AITA   (Spain)

^h University Institute affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona   (Spain)

ⁱ Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acquired brain injury; Attention; Effectiveness; Language; Memory; Neglect; Neuropsychological rehabilitation; Speed of processing

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PROCESSING; REVIEW;

EID: 78649886046     PISSN: 02100010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.33588/rn.5111.2009652     Document Type: Review

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