2026
Cognitive rehabilitation rests on 2 fundamental principles: - correct answer ✔✔Neuroplasticity
and adaptability
Brain Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group (BI-ISIG) of the American congress of
Rehabilitation medicine defines cognition as: - correct answer ✔✔Systematic, functionally
oriented service of therapeutic cognitive activities, based on an assessment and understanding
of the persons brain-behavior deficits. Services are directed to achieve functional changes by:
reinforcing previously learned patterns of behavior or establishing new patterns of cognitive
activities
restorative approach - correct answer ✔✔-based on neuroplasticity: ability of the brain to
change itself to take on new functions. the ability of part of the brain to change its own function
to compensate for damage to another part of the brain
compensatory approach - correct answer ✔✔Based on the principles of adaptability
Cognitive Hierarchy - correct answer ✔✔Behaviors > behavioral intentions > attitudes and
norms > value orientations > values
Factors that interfere with cognitive rehabilitation - correct answer ✔✔Hearing
Vision
Communicative function
Medical stability
Emotional and behavioral control