International Journal of Neurorehabilitation

North Texas Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems Center, Dallas, TX, USA

Publications

• Research Article   
  Use of Virtual Reality Cognitive Training to Improve Executive and Complex Attentional Functions: Can Virtual Reality Performance PredictNeurorehabilitation Outcomes?
  Author(s): Marie N Dahdah*, Monica Bennett, Purvi Prajapati, Thomas D Parsons, Erin Sullivan, Simon Driver and David Salisbury
  
  Background: VR has proven successful in simulating activities and settings that prove inaccessible or unsafe to rehabilitate patients in. Current VR rehabilitation studies largely focus on assessing cognitive skills, not on training cognitive deficits. The current study focused on repeated exposure with a VR-based cognitive intervention to improve deficits known to impact the ability to resume complex activities. Associations between the VR Stroop and neuropsychological, speech therapy, and global rehabilitation measures were examined. We included a brain injured control group to address this frequently cited methodological concern. Design: This was a mixed design study with quasi-experimental Intervention group (N = 12) and retrospective Control group (N = 12). Both groups comprised individuals with brain injury admitted to an outpatient day neurorehabilitation program. Results: Pati.. Read More»
  

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