4th Satellite Symposium on Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

in conjunction with the

Inaugural meeting of
The Neuropsychological Rehabilitation Special Interest Group
of the World Federation for NeuroRehabilitation (WFNR)


Sala Andia Kutxa
San Sebastian (Donostia)
Spain
09.07. - 10.07.2007
 

 

 
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Program
  
 
Monday 09 July 2007
  
  8:00 - 9:00 Arrival and registration    
 
Session 1: The Big Picture - Chair: M. Perdices
  
  9:00 - 09:05 Welcome & Introduction M. Perdices  
      Welcome and Opening Remarks.  
  09:05 - 09:20 Opening Address B A Wilson  
      Formation of the Special Interest Group in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.  
  09:20 - 09:35 Platform 1 K.D. Cicerone, T. Mott, J. Azulay, M. Sharlow-Galella, W. Ellmo, J. Friel, S. Paradise  
      A Practical Clinical Trial of Holistic Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.  
  09:35 - 09:50 Platform 2 J.J. Evans  
      Under what Conditions is an Impairment Focused or Restitution Approach Appropriate in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation?  
  09:50 - 10:05 Platform 3 S. Sopeña, R. Rous, B.A. Wilson  
      Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: What is it all About?  
  10:05 - 10:20 Platform 4 C. Mateer  
      It's Just One Brain: Integrating Cognitive, Emotional, and Dispositional Interventions.  
  10:20 - 10:35   PANEL DISCUSSION  
  10:35 - 11:05 COFFE    
 
Session 2: Beyond Cognition - Chair: B. A. Wilson
  
  11:05 -11:20 Platform 5 J.F. Malec, A. M. Moessner
  
      Replicated Positive Results for the Vocational Case Coordinator (VCC) Model of Vocational Intervention after Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) within the Social Model of Disability.  
  11:20 -11:35 Platform 6 I. Sánchez-Cubillo, J.I. Quemada  
      Understanding Inappropriate Social Behaviour after Brain Injury: Contributions of Social Cognition.  
  11:35 -12:50 Platform 7 C. Haslam, A. Holme, S.AA. Haslam  
      Reconnecting with Society: Social Identity Continuity and the Importance of Maintained Group Membership for Well-Being after Stroke.  
  11:50 - 12:05 Platform 8 B.K. Dewar, B.A. Wilson  
      Long Term Functional Outcome from Low Awareness States.  
  12:05 - 12:20 Platform 9 H. König, J. Volkert, G. W. Alpers, P. Flachenecker  
      Explaining the Inexplicable - Intensity of Attention and Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis.  
  12:20 - 12:35 Platform 10 A.Worthington  
      Managing Risk in Rehabilitation.  
  12:35 - 12:50   PANEL DISCUSSION  
  12:40 - 14:00 LUNCH    
 
Session 3: Measurement and Evidence - Chair: J. I. Quemada
  
  14:00 -14:15 Platform 11 NB Lincoln, K Vella, R Smith
  
      Validation of a Cognitive Assessment as a Predictor of Fitness to Drive in People with Dementia.  
  14:15 -14:30 Platform 12 A. Bateman, E. Greenfield, J. Evans, B.A.Wilson  
      Development of a Questionnaire to Assess Experience of Divided Attention Difficulties: Insights Gained from Rasch Analysis.  
  14:30 -14:45 Platform 13 J.M. Douglas, C.A. Bracy, P.C. Snow  
      Measuring Social Communication Ability after Traumatic Brain Injury: Reliability and Validity of the La Trobe Communication Questionnaire.  
  14:45 - 15:00 Platform 14 R. Tate, S. McDonald, M. Perdices, L. Togher, R. Schultz, S. Savage  
      Reliability and Validity of a New Scale for Rating Methodological Quality of Single-Subject Designs and N-of-1 Trials.  
  15:00 - 15:15 Platform 15 M. Perdices, R.L.Tate  
      Single Case Designs in Rehabilitation: how do we Interpret the Results?  
  15:15 - 15:30   PANEL DISCUSSION  
  15:30 - 16:00 COFFE    
 
Session 4: Paediatric Perspectives - Chair: S. Fernandez
  
  16:00 -16:15 Platform 16 I. van ´t Hooft, K. Andersson, B. Bergman, T. Sejersen, L.von Wendt, A. Bartfai
  
      Sustained Favorable Effects of Cognitive Training in Children with Acquired Brain Injuries.  
  16:15 -16:30 Platform 17 W. Huw Williams, Kia Chong Chua, Lucy Hooper, Ian Frampton  
      Parents of Children with Brain Injury: Stress, Coping and Parenting Strategies.  
  16:30 -16:45 Platform 18 S.E. Wall, W. H. Williams, I. Frampton  
      Socio-Emotional Functioning in Young Adolescents with a History of TBI: Developing a New Measure.  
  16:45 -17:00 Platform 19 H. Harrington  
      The Forgotten Siblings.  
  17:00 - 17:15   PANEL DISCUSSION  
    CLOSE    

  Display No. AUTHOR POSTERS FOR DISPLAY ON MONDAY 9 JULY (Title)  
 
1
 Cruz et al The Efficacy of Memory Training in Early Alzheimer Disease.
  
 
2
 Champion et al Increased Use of Memory Strategies Following Attendance at a Single-Session 'Memory Group' Intervention.  
 
3
 Mello et al Categorical Memory Strategies in Children with Congenital and Acquired Brain Damage: Implications for Cognitive Rehabilitation.  
 
4
 Leathem et al Congruency between formal assessment and self report of memory function after TBI.  
 
5
 Ho et al Self-Instructional Memory Remediation for Paediatric Brain Injury.  
 
6
 Montejo et al Improvement in Everyday Memory: Multifactorial Memory Training Program.  
 
7
 Blythe et al The Relationship Between Objective and Subjective Memory Assessments in Adults with Brain Injury  
 
8
 Nanery et al Memory Without Memory: Assessing The Integrity of Implicit Memory Using the Implicit Memory Test.  
 
9
 Binschaedler et al Merlin : a software offering variants of the errorless learning method  
 
10
 Malec et al The Mayo Classification System for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Severity.  
 
11
 López Sánchez et al International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) In Neurorehabilitation Daily Practice: An Interdisciplinary Project.  
 
12
 Gonzalez et al. Recovery of Disorders of Self-Awareness in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury.  
 
13
 De Guise et al Prediction of Frontal Impairments of Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury in an Early Rehabilitation Setting.  
 
14
 Uzzell Neuropsychological Rehabilitation of Mild Brain Injury in Preexisting Bipolar Disease.  
 
15
 Norup & Siert Psychological Intervention to Relatives of Patients with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury or Severe Subarachnoidal Hemorrhage.  
 
16
 Harrington The Family's Postive Experience : What Makes The Difference After A member Sustains A Traumatic Brain Injury".
  
 
17
 Russell et al Formulating the Couple Relationship Before and After Severe Closed Head Injury and Exploiting Neuropsychology and Specialist Head Injury Counselling Resources in Treatment.  
 
18
 Hämmerling et al Satisfaction with life and quality of relationship in partners of chronically brain injured individuals.  
 
19
 Turner-Cobb et al Psychosocial Factors and Cortisol Rhythmicity in Close Relatives of Patients with Severe Acquired Brain Injury.  
 
20
 Cannan et al Measurement of Post-TBI Recovery to 12 Months Using Rivermead Post Concussion Symptoms Questionnaire (RPCSQ) Factor Scores: Effects of Clinical and Demographic Variables.  
 
21
 Holm et al Measurement of Mood Recovery in the 1st year post-TBI using Hospital Anxiety & Depression (HADS) Factor Scores, and the Effects of Clinical and Demographic Variables.  
 
22
 Hofer et al "What Sense Has My Life After Brain Injury?" Neuro-Psychotherapeutic Implications for the Process Of Coping With Effects of Brain Injury.  
 
23
 Mackey et al Improving Social Outcomes Following Brain Injury through Development of Confident Communication Skills.
  
 
24
 Prince Rehabilitation of Social Cognition Disorders: A Discussion Paper on Developments in Brain Injury Rehabilitation.  
 
25
 Rees et al Community Rehabilitation for People with Brain Injury.  
 
26
 Rees Post Concussion Syndrome Longitudinal Effects and Management.
  
 
27
 Tollman et al Neuropsychological Rehabilitation Outcomes.  
 
28
 Bartfai et al Holistic Neuropsychological Group Rehabilitation in Sweden.  
 
29
 Madden A Simply Self-Sustaining Service in South Africa.  
 
30
 Blake et al Neuropsychologists or Rehabilitation Professionals? Making Neuropsychology Meaningful in a Community Service.  
 
31
 Blake et al What do They Want and What Do They Get? Clients' Evaluations of Their Neuropsychological Assessment.  
 
32
 Eriksson The Influence of Occupational Gaps on Life Satisfaction after Acquired Brain Injury  
 
33
 Abrisqueta-Gomez et al Effects of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation on Functional Performance of Alzheimer Disease Patients.  
 
34
 Schoenberger et al The Relationship Between Clients´ Cognitive Functioning and the Therapeutic Working Alliance in Post-Acute Brain Injury Rehabilitation.  
 
35
 Schoenberger et al The Relationship Between Physical Fitness and the Follow-Up Outcome of Post-Acute Brain Injury Rehabilitation.
  
 
36
 Jenkins et al Subjective Contributions to Post Stroke Depression.  
 
37
 Berry Characteristics of Acquired Brain Injury Patients who are Considered Fit and Unfit to Drive From a Neuropsychological Perspective.  

 

 
Tuesday 10 July 2007
  
 
Session 5: Executive Domains - Chair J. J. Evans
  
  09:00 - 09:15 Platform 20 J.M. Spikman, D. Boelen, K.F. Lamberts, W.H. Brouwer, L. Fasotti  
      Cognitive Rehabilitation of the Dysexecutive Syndrome; Effects of a Multifaceted Treatment Program on Neuropsychological Tests for EF and Indications of Everyday Participation Level Functioning.  
  09:15 - 09:30 Platform 21 K.F Lamberts, R.J. Renken, J.M. Spikman, W.H. Bouwer  
      Cognitive Rehabilitation of Brain-Injured Patients with the Dysexecutive Syndrome: Functional Brain Reorganisation Assessed with the aid of fMRI.  
  09:30 - 09:45 Platform 22 I Bombín, A Bilbao, T Legido  
      The Leading Role of Executive Functioning in the Functional Independence of Acquired Brain Injury Patients.  
  09:45 - 10:00 Platform 23 M. Maitz, M. Perdices  
      Clinical Implications of Categorical Cueing During Verbal and Non-Verbal Learning in Persons with Unilateral Frontal and Temporal Lobe Tumours.  
  10:00 - 10:15 Platform 24 J. Ponsford, M.K. Grant, P.Bennett  
      The Rehabilitation of Executive Deficits Following Traumatic Brain Injury.  
  10:15 - 10:30   PANEL DISCUSSION  
  10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE    
 
Session 6: Rehabilitation of Memory - Chair: R. Tate
  
  11:00 - 11:15 Platform 25 E. Greenfield, R. Nannery, B.A. Wilson
  
      You Learn Something New Every Day - or do You?  
  11:15 - 11:30 Platform 26 D. Shum, J. Fleming, H. Gill, N. Roche  
      Prospective Memory Rehabilitation for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury: A Randomised Controlled Trial.  
  11:30 - 11:45 Platform 27 S. Fernández Guinea, M. L. Delgado Losada  
      Improvement of Memory Performance in Elderly People: Benefits of Semantic Categorization Strategy Training.  
  11:30 - 11:45 Platform 28 R. das Nair, N. Lincoln, E. Kontou, K. Vella, M.C. O'Brien  
      A Comparison of the Effectiveness of two Types of Memory Rehabilitation Strategies Following Brain Damage: A Single-Blind, Randomised Control Trial.  
  11:45 - 12:00 Platform 29 K.I Hodder, C. Haslam, P.J. Yates  
      Erroless Learning and Spaced Retrieval: Who Benefits from these Techniques?  
  12:00 - 12:15   PANEL DISCUSSION  
  12:15 - 13:15 LUNCH    
 
Session 7: Pushing the Boundaries with Technology - Chair: N. Paul
  
  13:15 - 13:30 Platform 30 A.S. Jansari, C. Stadtler, E. Berry, G. Browne
  
      Flexing SenseCam's Muscle: Long-term Memory Reconsolidation in a Severely Amnesic Encephalitic Patient.  
  13:30 - 13:45 Platform 31 R. G. Morris, E. Pullen, S Kerr, P.R. Bullock, R.P. Selway  
      Virtual Reality Exploration of Social Rule Violation In Patients with Focal Prefrontal Neurosurgical Lesions.  
  13:45 - 14:00 Platform 32 G. Browne, E. Berry, and N Kapur  
      Using SenseCam, a Wearable Camera, to Alleviate Autobiographical Memory Loss.  
  14:00 - 14:15 Platform 33 A. Gillespie, B. O'Neill  
      A Novel Assistive Technology for Cognition to Aid Performance of Complex Behavioural Sequences.  
  14:15 - 14:30 Platform 34 I Keller  
      Use of Biofeedback in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.  
  14:30 - 14:45   PANEL DISCUSSION  
    CLOSE    

  Display No. AUTHOR POSTERS FOR DISPLAY ON TUESDAY 10 JULY (Title)  
  1 Millar et al.
 A Systematic Review of the Ecological Validity of Neuropsychological Tests of Executive Dysfunction.  
  2 Caracuel-Romero et al
Effects of a Holistic Rehabilitation Program on Executive Dysfunction in Patients with Acquired Brain Injury.  
  3 Jansari et al
In Search of an Ecologically Valid Measure of the Dysexecutive Syndrome: Can Virtual Reality Help in Rehabilitation?  
  4 Spikman et al
The Executive Secretariat Task (EST); A Real-Life, Ecologically Valid Measurement of Executive Functioning.  
  5 Yeates et al
Dysexecutive Problems and Interpersonal Relating following Frontal Brain Injury: Reformulation and Compensation in Cognitive-Analytic Therapy (CAT).  
  6 Gil Orejudo et al
A Comparative Study Between the Patient Competency Rating Scale Neurorehabilitation and Subtest Sensitive to Executive Deficits.  
  7 Sweeney et al
The Efficacy of Periodic Auditory Alerts in Improving Performance on a Virtual Reality Task Of Planning and Prospective Memory.  
  8 Bausela Herreras et al
Assessment and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation of Executive Fuction.  
  9 Boman et al Learning to Use New Technology in an Apartment for Transitional Living.
  
  10 Sopeña et al
Reliability of The European Brain Injury Questionnaire (EBIQ).  
  11 Cuberos-Urbano et al
Sociodemographic Profile of a Spanish Sample of Main Caregivers of Patients with Adquired Brain Injury.  
  12 Bilbao et al
Comparison of three different methods to estimate premorbid intelligence in Spanish population.  
  13 Moreno-Martínez et al
Evaluating Categorical Effects: Items and Norms Collected from Healthy Spanish.  
  14 Muñoz Marrón
Verbal IQ and Performance IQ in Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus: Non Verbal Learning Disabilities Syndrome.  
  15 Becker
Effects of Sports Concussion on Postinjury Executive Functions in College Athletes.  
  16 Del Moral Orro et al
Analysis of the Activity: Nourishment and Occupational Therapy.  
  17 Mounce et al Risk of Psychiatric Disorder in Children with Congenital versus Acquired Brain Dysfunction.
  
  18 Stargatt
 Provision of Rehabilitation Services Needs to Take Account of the Multiple, Interactive and Cumulative Neurological Events that Produce the Long Term Cognitive Deficit in Children Treated for Posterior Fossa Tumours  
  19 Van ´t Hooft et al
 Multimethod Intervention for Children with Cognitive Difficulties After Brain Tumour.  
  19a Vuksanovic et al
 Communication abilities in children with LANDAU- KLEFFNER SYNDROME  
  20 Medina i Mirapeix et al
 Development and Validation of a Measure of Processes in Physiotherapy Services.  
  21 Medina i Mirapeix et al
Parents' Perception of the Physiotherapy Services in Early Intervention Centers.  
  22 Medina i Mirapeix et al
 Satisfaction with Physiotherapy Services and Parents' Exhaustion of Childrem with Development Problems.  
  23 Talbot et al Neuropsychological Assessment, Rehabilitation and Transition Planning for an Adolescent with Glutaric Aciduria Type 1.  
  24 Kerminen et al
Holistic Pediatric Rehabilitation Programme for Children with Acquired Brain Injury.  
  25 Levick et at Looking Ahead: A Resource to Assist in Return to School After Acquired Brain Injury (ABI).
  
  26 Verdon et al
Use of Card and Board Games in Executive Function Remediation in Children.  
  27 Trinidad
Neuroconstructivistic Intervention for Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder: A Comprehensive Approach for its Understanding and Management.  
  28 Muszkat et al
ADHD and Co-Morbid: Contribution of P300 in a Case Report.
  
  29 Miranda et al
Sustained Attention in Children with ADHD and Learning Disabilities.  
  30 Tonks et al
An Exploratory Study of the Cognitive Correlates of Psychosocial Functioning Following Brain Injury Acquired in Childhood.  
  31 Orgun et al
Perception of Speech Errors: Native Perception Vs. Formal Acoustic Analysis.  
  32 Shukla et al
Remediation of Reading Difficulties Based on Successive and Simultaneous Processing: A Case Study.  
  33 Davis et al
Is There a Role for Mental Practice in Speech Rehabilitation?  
  34 Stamenova et al Recovery of Apraxia After Left Hemisphere Stroke: A Case Study.
  
  35 Valdez et al

Effects of Atomoxetine in a Patient Recovering from Brain Ischemia.  
  36 Tierney et al
Impact Of Establishing Comfort And An Environment For Learning In Recovery From Low Level Conscious States - A Single Case.  
  37 Thimm et al
Effects of a New Computerised Exploration Training on Neural Recovery from Spatial Neglect  
  38 Haid Normative Data for Diagnosing Visual Neglect with a New Screening-Test: Cats Test.
  

 

 
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