Cognitive Rehabilitation for the Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury

Excerpt: Scope of This Report This report evaluates the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation therapy (CRT) for the treatment of adult patients with mild, moderate, or severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), and serves to update a previous report published by ECRI Institute in July, 2007 on the same topic. This report expands on the previous report in that it includes patients with mild TBI and considers comprehensive, holistic treatment programs. Specifically, this report considers CRT interventions that are directed toward treating specific cognitive deficits (e.g., deficits of attention, memory, or communication) as well as comprehensive, holistic programs that are designed to address the cognitive, emotional, psychosocial, and behavioral deficits of TBI. The us...