Improving Cognitive Function in Patients with Stroke: Can Computerized Training Be the Future?

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 1055-1060

  De Luca, Rosaria ^a   Leonardi, Simona ^a   Spadaro, Letteria ^b   Russo, Margherita ^a   Aragona, Bianca ^a   Torrisi, Michele ^a   Maggio, Maria Grazia ^a   Bramanti, Alessia ^a   Naro, Antonino ^a   De Cola, Maria Cristina ^a   Calabrò, Rocco Salvatore ^a  

^a IRCCS CENTRO NEUROLESI BONINO PULEJO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognitive rehabilitation; computerized training; functional recovery; neuropsychology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MEMORY; MOOD; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOFTWARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AFFECT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; CONVALESCENCE; DISABILITY; ITALY; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STROKE REHABILITATION; TIME FACTOR; TRENDS;

ADULT; AFFECT; ATTENTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; ITALY; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STROKE; STROKE REHABILITATION; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85037056265     PISSN: 10523057     EISSN: 15328511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2017.11.008     Document Type: Article

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