Cognitive Rehabilitation from introduction to practice with a focus in computer based rehabilitation software's.

1. Computer based Cognitive
Rehabilitation
With focus on an Clinical Study by Stroke Patients
March 2024
Pouria Saadat
PhD student of Cognitive Psychology

2. • PhD Student of Cognitive Psychology (ICBS)
• M.Sc. Cognitive Rehabilitation (ICSS)
• B.Sc. of Psychology (YAZD University)
• Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapist ( Tabassom Stroke
Patients Rehabilitation Center, Tehran)
pouriasaadat76@gmail.com
p_saadat@sbu.ac.ir
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pouria-saadat-79b9b6167/

3. What is Cognitive Rehabilitation?
Cognitive rehabilitation therapy has been defined as a systematic and
functionally oriented therapeutic cognitive activity directed to achieve
functional changes.
1-Reestablishing or strengthening previously learned patterns of behavior
2-Establishing new patterns of cognitive activity or compensatory
mechanisms for impaired neurological systems.
T. Novakovic-Agopians, G.M. Abrams, Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy, Editor(s): Michael J. Aminoff, Robert B. Daroff, Encyclopedia of the
Neurological Sciences (Second Edition), Academic Press, 2014.

4. Education
Clinical
Intervention
Environment
Person
Family
Job/
School
Society
Paper-Pencil
cognitive
training
Computer
based
Neuro-feedback
Brain
Stimulation

5. 1-Paper and Pencil
2-Computer_Based
3-Neurofeedback
4-Brain Stimulation

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8. Computer Based Cognitive Rehabilitation;
Hopes & Challenges
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9. Computer Based Cognitive Rehabilitation;
Hopes & Challenges
• McDonald, Clark, and
Ruwe
• Results are
mixed
2002
• Politis
• insufficient
evidence to support
or refute the
efficacy of CCR
2016 • Fetta
• Poor Methods
Research
2017

10. Which factors are weak in researches?
What Should we do?
Optimal format
dosage, timing, and duration of computer-based intervention
prospective, longitudinal, repeated-measures study, with an
adequate number of participants

14. Rehacom,
Cognitive Training Software

15. A Clinical-trial Research

16. A Clinical-trial Research
Research Method Experimental (Pre-test, Post-test with Control Group)
Population
Patients with stroke referred to the Stroke Rehabilitation Center in Tehran Timeframe:
Bahman 1401 to Mordad 1402
Sampling Method Purposeful sampling
Sample Size
32 individuals Research Groups: Experimental group (16 individuals), Control group (16
individuals)
Assessment Tool RehaCom software's Visual Field Assessment Module
Intervention Program
10 sessions lasting 30 to 45 minutes over 5 weeks Each session included four exercises
from the attention and visual-spatial modules, each lasting 8 to 10 minutes
Alertness (ALTA), Restoration Training (RESE), Saccadic Training (SAKA), and Exploration
Training (EXPL)

17. A Clinical-trial Research

18. My Experience Through Research
and Clinical Work
• Rehabilitation is a multi-disciplinary work
• Rehabilitation needs a wide range of knowledge; from current
terminologies in Medicine to some issues in neurology
• Knowledge in Pharmacology
• Knowledge in the interpretation of CT scans, MRI, and EEG(for Stroke
and TBI patients)
• Make a comprehensive profile for your client
• Observation and clinical work
• There is always a new thing; Don`t worry

21. Resources

22. Resources