1. Intervention
and
Rehabilitation

2. Rehabilitation
• becoming one of the major functions of
neuropsychologists.
• involves methods for retraining neural pathways to
regain or improve neurocognitive functioning that has
been diminished by disease or trauma
1. Assessment of the patient’s strengths and deficits is
conducted.
2. A program of rehabilitation is developed.

3. 2 types of neuropsychological rehabilitation:
– Restorative rehabilitation helps the patient
recover brain functions that have been impaired.
This approach is usually emphasized initially until
it is evident that the patient has reached the level
of functioning that the patient had before the
injury.
– Compensatory rehabilitation helps the patient
cope with and compensate for impairments that
are likely to be permanent.

4. General guidelines for formulating rehabilitation
task:
1. It should include the impaired skill that one is trying
to reformulate.
2. The therapist should be able to vary the task in
difficulty.
3. Task should be quantifiable.
4. The task should provide immediate feedback to the
patient.
5. The number of errors made by the patient should
be controlled.

5. Current trends in the Field
of Neuropsychology

6. Sports-related concussion

7. Forensic neuropsychology

8. Functional neuroimaging
• use of neuroimaging
technology to
measure an aspect of
brain function, often
with a view to
understanding the
relationship between
activity in certain
brain areas and
specific mental
functions.

9. Virtual reality technology

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