Retraining moderately impaired stroke survivors in driving-related visual attention skills

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 328-336

  Akinwuntan, Abiodun E ^a   Devos, Hannes ^b   Verheyden, Geert ^c   Baten, Guido ^d   Kiekens, Carlotte ^e   Feys, Hilde ^b   De Weerdt, Willy ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d CARA   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

divided attention; driving simulator; rehabilitation; selective attention; speed of processing; stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL TEST; PRETEST POSTTEST DESIGN; REHABILITATION CENTER; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; SURVIVOR; THERAPY EFFECT; TRAINING; USEFUL FIELD OF VIEW; VISION;

ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 79251603419     PISSN: 10749357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1310/tsr1705-328     Document Type: Article

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