zeynab khanjani; mohammad ali nazari; mehdi farhoudi; parya abravani
Abstract
Objective: Stroke is a kind of neurological disorder that can be attributed to a focal vascular cause. Defective working memory is one of the most commonly occurring phenomena after brain damage. Cognitive Rehabilitation is a cognitive and neuropsychological interventions program, designed to rehabilitate ...
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Objective: Stroke is a kind of neurological disorder that can be attributed to a focal vascular cause. Defective working memory is one of the most commonly occurring phenomena after brain damage. Cognitive Rehabilitation is a cognitive and neuropsychological interventions program, designed to rehabilitate cognitive deficiencies. Method: Twenty patients with stroke were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. All patients were examined twice (pre-test and post-test) by using Wechsler's working memory test, N-Back spatial working memory test. All patients in experimental group underwent computerized working memory rehabilitation, 30 to 40 minutes a day, 5 days a week, for 5 weeks. Results: Analysis of covariance indicated that cognitive rehabilitation had an effect on the verbal working memory of adults in stroke but does not affect spatial working memory. Conclusion: The results showed that, there is a significant improvement in verbal working memory, it may occur as a result of changes in neural organization in response to injury. As a result of the cognitive rehabilitation program used in this study reemerges subjective acts and based on brain flexibility, it improves the working memory of people with stroke.
