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What is Degenerative Conditions

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Examining Biological Foundations of Human Behavior
Is a type of a medical condition that causes a tissue or organ to deteriorate over time. There are quite a number of degenerative diseases and many of them are associated with aging or gets worse during the aging process.
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Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
Geeta Singh (AIl India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), India) and G. S. Kaloiya (AIl India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), India)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2860-0.ch013
Abstract
Neuropsychological rehabilitation is concerned with achievement of maximum potential in diverse domains of psychological, social, vocational, and everyday life functioning in people with cognitive, emotional, psychosocial, and behavioral deficits caused by an insult to the brain. Hence, neuropsychological rehabilitation is the process of helping a patient to recover the functions that are impaired due to brain injury. The major role of neuropsychological rehabilitation is the improvement of cognitive deficits resulting from brain damage using extensive cognitive retraining. This chapter explores neuropsychological rehabilitation.
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