Everyday memory assessment following childhood acquired brain injury (ABI)

Rehabilitation following acquired brain injury: concise guidance.

The national clinical guidelines for Rehabilitation following acquired brain injury were developed by a multidisciplinary working party convened by the British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine, and are published in collaboration with the Royal College of Physicians (2003). They have been produced to complement the National Institute of Clinical Excellence head injury guidelines, and to addres...

Socio-emotional behaviour following acquired brain injury

Community Integration for After Acquired Brain Injury: A Literature Review

Objectives: This paper reviews the current literature on acquired brain injury (ABI) with a focus on ABI burden, importance of community integration, and community integration definitions suggested by the literature. Methods: Literature review Results: Acquired brain injury (ABI) is referred to a diverse range of disabilities resulted of injury in different parts of the brain. People with AB...

Use of antidepressant medication following acquired brain injury: concise guidance.

Depression is increasingly recognised as a common sequel to acquired brain injury and the use of antidepressant medication in this context has increased markedly over recent years. However, these drugs are not without side effects--some of them serious--and they should not be used without proper evaluation and monitoring. This set of concise guidance was developed jointly by the British Society...

Spatial-temporal characteristics of perceptual organization following acquired brain injury.

OBJECTIVE To assess characteristics of perceptual organization following brain injury. RESEARCH DESIGN A repeated measures between groups design. METHODS Perceptual thresholds were compared between 10 persons with brain injury and 10 demographically matched healthy control subjects. Ten young control subjects were also tested to evaluate effects of normal ageing on these processes. Particip...