Cognitive assessment during neuro-rehabilitation in severe brain injury patient – a single-subject case study Running title: Neuro-rehabilitation in severe TBI

This study examined the importance of neuro-rehabilitation on a severe brain injury patient. We studied on a 9years old girl who had severe brain injury following a motor vehicle accident (MVA). According to her mother, after accident patient had poor attention and memory and behavioural changes. Subsequent to three months the patient was undergone with neuropsychological assessments. Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV), Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT) and Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) were done. All the scores were poor. Then neuro-rehabilitation was started to improve the patient’s attention and memory. Rehabilitation was done once for every two weeks. Up to now reassessment was done twice, 6 weeks and one year after first assessment (baseline). Results showed improvement of all scores gradually in first and second assessments. These results provide us the importance for the clinical use of neuro-rehabilitation regularly to improve cognitive function for quality of life in severe brain injury patients.