Cognitive rehabilitation of naming deficits following viral meningo-encephalitis

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 a...

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Main Author: Eliane C. Miotto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações 2002-03-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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description 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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spelling doaj-art-c890b53e4c734bf2ab8ecbd7524d75c22025-08-20T03:24:11ZengThieme Revinter PublicaçõesArquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria1678-42272002-03-01601212710.1590/S0004-282X2002000100005Cognitive rehabilitation of naming deficits following viral meningo-encephalitisEliane C. Miotto0The National Hospital for Neurology and NeurosurgeryOBJECTIVE: 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 processinghttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2002000100005&tlng=encognitive rehabilitationnaming deficitsviral meningo-encephalitis
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title Cognitive rehabilitation of naming deficits following viral meningo-encephalitis
title_full Cognitive rehabilitation of naming deficits following viral meningo-encephalitis
title_fullStr Cognitive rehabilitation of naming deficits following viral meningo-encephalitis
title_full_unstemmed Cognitive rehabilitation of naming deficits following viral meningo-encephalitis
title_short Cognitive rehabilitation of naming deficits following viral meningo-encephalitis
title_sort cognitive rehabilitation of naming deficits following viral meningo encephalitis
topic cognitive rehabilitation
naming deficits
viral meningo-encephalitis
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