Cognitive rehabilitation of naming deficits following viral meningo-encephalitis.

Full Abstract

OBJECTIVE:
This case study describes the neuropsychological assessment and cognitive rehabilitation of a patient who developed word retrieval deficits for objects and people's names, following an episode of viral meningo-encephalitits. It shows the implementation and outcome of two techniques adapted to the patient's individual characteristics and context providing a more ecologically valid approach.

METHODS:
In the first technique, "verbal semantic association", the patient was required to describe what she knew about an object as a strategy to help her retrieve its name. In the second one, "face-name association" she was taught to apply a visual-imagery technique in order to retrieve relevant people's names.

RESULTS:
Following the implementation of these procedures there was a decrease in the number of episodes of failure to retrieve objects and people's names in her everyday life context.

CONCLUSION:
The improvement found in the patient's ability to retrieve words is discussed in terms of the utility of cognitive rehabilitation programmes and cognitive models of language processing

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Author information

Author/s: Miotto, Eliane C (EC);

Affiliation: Department of Neuropsychology, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Case Reports; Journal Article

Journal: Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria (Arq Neuropsiquiatr), published in Brazil. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Mar; vol 60 (issue 1) : pp 21-7

Dates: Created 2002/04/19; Completed 2002/05/23; Revised 2007/11/15;

PMID: 11965404, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Aged
Cognition Disorders - rehabilitation; virology
Female
Humans
Meningoencephalitis - complications

Meningoencephalitis - complications
Mental Recall - physiology
Names
Neuropsychological Tests
Terminology as Topic

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