Cognitive Rehabilitation — a New Direction of Medical Aid to Patients with the Brain Focal Lesions

The cognitive function disturbances are the more frequent and serious consequence of the brain acute focal lesions at such a prevalent pathology as insults and craniocerebral traumas, however a very small attention is paid to their reduction in neurological practice. It is partially explained by underestimation of the human cognitive function disturbance problem by many physicians at an acute cerebral pathology and an importance of the disorder directed correction. The modern principles and strategies of a cognitive rehabilitation in the brain vascular and traumatic lesion clinic are discussed in the article.

Grigorieva V.N. Cognitive Rehabilitation — a New Direction of Medical Aid to Patients with the Brain Focal Lesions. Sovremennye tehnologii v medicine 2010; (2): 95