Cognitive Rehabilitation of Memory

Cognitive Rehabilitation of Memory: A Clinical-Neuropsychological Introductioncomprehensively reviews evidence-based research for each clinical tool, defining guidelines on how to assess patients and set treatment goals and best practices for creating individualized rehabilitation programs. The book also provides essential background knowledge on the nature and causes of memory impairment. Dr. Helmut Hildebrandt describes a wide range of interventions, including memory aids, learning strategies and non-cognitive treatment options

• Outlines guidelines for treating patients with memory disorder
• Reviews rehabilitation programs to improve memory function
• Examines non-cognitive approaches for improving memory impairments

Table of Contents

I. Evidence-based medicine in rehabilitation research 
1. Introduction
2. Strategies of neurorehabilitation: restitution and compensation
3. Definition of evidence-based medicine (EBM)
4. Reviewing and the development of guidelines
5. Guidelines for treating patients
6. How to measure treatment effects ("outcome")?
7. How to rate neuropsychological assessments as outcome measures
8. Level of evidence
9. The Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) as "gold-standard" in rehabilitation research
10. Some basic aspects of statistical analysis of treatment studies
11. Problems with group studies in neuropsychological rehabilitation research
12. Single case experimental designs (SCED) in rehabilitation research
13. The quality of a treatment study does not only depend on a sound methodology

II. Rehabilitation of moderately to mildly impaired memory functions
1. Some remarks on the frequency (prevalence) and persistence of memory disorders as consequence of organic brain diseases
2. Rehabilitation of memory: Improving encoding through mnemonic strategies
3. Memory rehabilitation as improving the encoding process through multiple, adaptive mnemonic strategies
4. Deep encoding and transfer appropriate processing and memory rehabilitation
5. Improving memory performance through working memory training
6 Is it possible to improve recollection? The repetition lag procedure
7. Memory rehabilitation focusing on retrieval training
8. Specific guidelines for rehabilitation of mildly to moderately memory impaired patients

III. Compensation of memory disorders through external memory aids
1. Spontaneous use of memory aids
2. Group studies on teaching external aids to memory impaired patients
3. A classification of memory aids and to what kind of patients they fit

IV. Treatment of severely impaired, amnestic patients
1. Some etiological, epidemiological and defining background information
2. Treatment options
3. Orientation training
4. Treating confabulations

V. Non-cognitive treatments of memory impairments
1. Transcranial direct current stimulation
2. Neurofeedback