Cognitive rehabilitation for attention deficits following stroke

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Loetscher, Tobias ^a   Lincoln, Nadina B ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; ATTENTION RATING AND MONITORING SCALE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE FAILURES QUESTIONNAIRE; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MOOD; MOSS ATTENTION RATING SCALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE OF ATTENTIONAL BEHAVIOUR; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ATTENTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; META ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPLICATION; STROKE;

ATTENTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STROKE;

EID: 84891690852     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD002842.pub2     Document Type: Review

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