Could behavioral therapies target specific deficits in multiple sclerosis patients?

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 755-757

  Chiaravalloti, Nancy D ^a,b  

^a KESSLER FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive deficits; cognitive rehabilitation; memory rehabilitation; multiple sclerosis; processing speed; treatment specificity

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MEMORY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; REVIEW; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS;

EID: 84864628898     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.12.68     Document Type: Review

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