The effect of computer-based cognitive flexibility training on recovery of executive function after stroke: Rationale, design and methods of the TAPASS study

BMC Neurology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  van de Ven, Renate M ^a   Schmand, Ben ^a   Groet, Erny ^b   Veltman, Dick J ^c   Murre, Jaap M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Heliomare Research and Development   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognition; Cognitive control; Cognitive flexibility training; Computer based training; Executive functions; Online testing; Randomized controlled trial; Rehabilitation outcome; Stroke; Structural and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI and fMRI)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITION; COMPUTER BASED COGNITIVE TRAINING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESTING STATE NETWORK; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NEUROREHABILITATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES; STROKE REHABILITATION; SURVIVOR; TELEREHABILITATION; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION; STROKE REHABILITATION; SURVIVORS; TELEREHABILITATION; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84939521613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12883-015-0397-y     Document Type: Article

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