What is cognitive rehabilitation? Do you know?
Maybe the word rehabilitation is simple. Rehabilitation means making something work that for some reason does not work as well as it once did. But cognitive? Giving a definition of cognition is complicated and tedious, instead let's give examples. Some of the cognitive processes (or cognitive functions) are: memory, attention, perception, solving problems, etc. Cognitive rehabilitation aims to restore cognitive processes after they no longer work as they should.
Who needs cognitive rehabilitation? Generally, anyone who has suffered an injury that has impaired cognitive functions. If, for example, you think about people who complain of memory problems, you might think about diseases like dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. Exactly. Cognitive rehabilitation is aimed at individuals with neurocognitive disorders that may be due to: Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal degeneration, Lewy’s body disease, vascular disease, traumatic brain injury, substance/drug abuse, HIV infection, prion disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, etc.
What can be done in these cases? The neurologist may suggest cognitive stimulation interventions. But what is cognitive stimulation? Did you ever have physical therapy after removing a cast for a while?
The concept is similar. If a leg is immobilised because it was broken, one needs physical rehabilitation, to get it back to the way it was before (or more or less the way it was before). If a person suffers brain damage, the brain needs to be re-trained to rehabilitate it. Maybe someone is thinking, "I’ve never heard of someone being cured of Alzheimer’s". Sure, I’ve certainly oversimplified that aspect. Some neurocognitive disorders cause irreversible damage, so returning to the condition prior to damage is impossible. However, it can help the subject to "maintain" his cognitive functions and keep the maximum level of well-being possible.
Cognitive rehabilitation price: 30€ for an hour-long session.