Cognitive Rehabilitation for Memory Deficits After Stroke
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
das Nair, R., Cogger, H., et al. (2016).
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 9, Cd002293.
This updated systematic review compares the effects of cognitive rehabilitation to no treatment or placebo control on memory deficits in individuals after stroke.
The Cochrane Collaboration; National Institute for Health Research (United Kingdom)
<p>The data in this systematic review are included
in another document which can be found in the Associated Article section below.</p>
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Up to February/March 2016; specific dates provided on p. 11
Randomized controlled trials; pre-cross-over portion of randomized cross-over trials
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Interventions included computerized memory training, education and teaching of compensatory strategies, strategy training, imagery mnemonics, and external aids. Overall, "results indicate that any benefits of memory rehabilitation were limited to improvements in subjective reports of memory function in the short term and they are inconclusive for long-term follow-up" (p. 21). The effects of memory rehabilitation were not significantly different from control for measures of mood or functional abilities.
