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Recovering from Head or Brain Injuries
According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, approximately 1 million head-injured people are treated every year in emergency rooms. Out of them, 270,000 experience a moderate to severe brain injury. The Institute estimates the cost of such brain injuries to the U.S. economy at close to 50 billion dollars.
A brain injury occurs as a result of trauma to the head. This trauma can involve a direct injury from an object penetrating through the skull or when the head hits an object fiercely, causing damage to the brain in one or more areas. Head injuries are caused by accidents, falls or assaults. Usually they result in concussion, which is a milder injury, or hematoma, a more severe injury that happens when internal bleeding occurs. After a trauma to the head, many individuals experience a short-term loss of consciousness. In more severe cases, a long-term coma can occur.
Head injuries can cause many changes in a person’s physical, mental and emotional well being, and memory loss is one of the most prevalent ones. A number of cognitive functions may become impaired. Effects include poor concentration, impairment in working or long-term memory and impairment in executive functions, especially reasoning, organizing, problem solving, controlling behavior and impulses as well as the ability to make decisions. In more severe cases, individuals experience post-traumatic amnesia for various lengths of time.
Recovering from a head injury takes time and requires a multi-disciplinary approach, which takes all the aspects of the injury into consideration. The rehabilitation process may involve the help of physiotherapy, occupational therapy, pain management, psychotherapy, and of course cognitive training.
In the Advanced Cognitive Enhancement (ACE) clinic, many such individuals have been successfully treated. They came for treatment after completing a number of rehabilitation programs and were told that they had achieved their maximal level of function or very close to it.
The Revolutionary Memory Course can, without a doubt, continue the process and promote further improvement. Except for very severe cases, this course enables such individuals to improve the following cognitive skills:
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Concept comprehension - understanding tasks and concepts
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Working memory - retaining necessary information for short periods of time, long enough to complete specific tasks
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Sequential processing - working with pieces of information, one after another
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Simultaneous processing or multitasking - processing a few pieces of information at the same time
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Attention duration - sustaining attention for longer periods
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Processing speed – increasing the speed with which information is processed
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Selective attention - focusing on one task at a time
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Divided attention - focusing on more than one task at a time
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Sensory motor coordination - coordinating sensory and motor skills
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Visual processing - working with visual images
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Auditory processing - working with sounds
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Audio-visual coordination - working simultaneously with both sounds and visual images
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Peripheral vision – noticing background details while focusing on a task
Dr. Gottfried highly recommends that if you are were head injured, you should continue with the programs and medication prescribed to you by the treating physicians, and as you progress in
The Revolutionary Memory Course, consult your physician regarding any appropriate changes in treatment protocols.
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