The invisible brain injury : cognitive impairments in traumatic brain injury, stroke and other acquired brain pathologies
Aurora Lassaletta
Bok · Engelsk · 2020
| Omfang | 157 sider
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| Opplysninger | Cover -- Praise -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- About the author -- Note -- Preface -- Part 1: The invisible brain injury -- Chapter 1: The invisible brain injury -- Introduction -- The history of the book -- Part 2: Cognitive symptoms -- Chapter 2: Cognitive symptoms related to attention -- Neurological fatigue: continuous energy calculations -- Attention difficulties -- Just one intense thing a day! The saturated hard drive -- Brain sluggishness: orders take time to arrive -- Chapter 3: Cognitive symptoms related to executive functions -- Need for external guidance with organisation -- Complicated decision-making -- Difficulty adapting to changes -- Impaired creativity -- Chapter 4: Cognitive symptoms related to memory -- Memory difficulty: the need for "cognitive crutches" -- Slow learning curve -- Not learning from experience, nor remembering it -- Chapter 5: Cognitive symptoms related to thinking -- Difficulty summarising -- Concrete thinking -- Chapter 6: Cognitive symptoms related to lack of awareness -- Lack of awareness of the real situation -- Part 3: Behavioural, motional and physical symptoms -- Chapter 7: Behavioural symptoms -- Impulsivity and verbal incontinence -- Tendency to passivity -- Loss of improvisation -- Chapter 8: Emotional symptoms -- Affective flattening and emotional inexpressiveness -- Chapter 9: Physical symptoms -- Body awareness and sensitivity -- Sleep disturbance and loss of satiety sensation -- Loss of balance -- Hypersensitivity to medications -- Asymmetry -- Auditory and optical hypersensitivity, diplopia, hyposalivation -- Part 4: Long-term adjustment and conclusions -- Chapter 10: Identity reconstruction -- Long-term emotional adjustment following an ABI -- Awareness of deficits and integrating the new me.. - Internalising compensatory tools -- Chapter 11: Concluding remarks -- References -- Index.. - The Invisible Brain Injury recounts, in her own words, the experience of Aurora Lassaletta, a clinical psychologist who suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) after a traffic accident. Presenting her unique dual perspective as both a patient and a clinician, Aurora highlights the less visible cognitive, emotional and behavioural symptoms common to acquired brain injury (ABI). This moving account showcases Aurora's growing awareness of her impairments, their manifestation in daily life, how they are perceived, or not, by others and the tools that helped her survive. Each chapter combines Aurora's perspective with the scientific view of a professional neuropsychologist or physiatrist who provide commentaries on her various symptoms. This book is valuable reading for professionals involved in neurorehabilitation and clinical neuropsychology and for clinical psychology students. It is a must read for ABI survivors, those around them and clinicians, who are all an essential part of the rehabilitation, adjustment and acceptance process involved with ABI.
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| ISBN | 9780367254049. - 9780367254070
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