School of Occupational Therapy
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Item Evaluating the effectiveness of reasoning training in military and civilian chronic traumatic brain injury patients: Study protocol(BMC, 2013) Krawczyk, Daniel C.; de la Plata, Carlos Marquez; Schauer, Guido F.; Vas, Asha K.; Keebler, Molly; Tuthill, Stephanie; Gardner, Claire; Jantz, Tiffani; Yu, Weikei; Chapman, Sandra B.Background: Individuals who sustain traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) often continue to experience significant impairment of cognitive functions mediated by the prefrontal cortex well into chronic stages of recovery. Traditional brain training programs that focus on improving specific skills fall short of addressing integrative functions that draw upon multiple higher-order processes critical for social and vocational integration. In the current study, we compare the effects of two short-term, intensive, group-based cognitive rehabilitation programs for individuals with chronic TBI. One program emphasizes learning about brain functions and influences on cognition, while the other program adopts a top-down approach to improve abstract reasoning abilities that are largely reliant on the prefrontal cortex. These treatment programs are evaluated in civilian and military veteran TBI populations.