Executive and Compensatory Memory Retraining in Traumatic Brain Injury.

Author(s)

M. R. Freeman
Wiley Mittenberg, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
M. Dicowden
M. Bat-Ami.

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Brain Injury

ISSN

0269-9052

Publication Date

2-1992

Abstract

A controlled treatment outcome study was conducted comparing the efficacy of memory remediation treatment with no treatment on traumatic brain-injury patients. The memory remediation treatment consisted of both compensatory and executive training skills and was delivered 6 hours weekly over a 2 1/2-week period. Six subjects in the treatment group and 6 subjects in the control group were matched on WAIS-R FSIQ scores, pre-test memory scores and age. Pre- and post-test measures were obtained for both groups on a paragraph memory task. A significant difference was demonstrated between the treatment and control post-test memory scores. The experimental group significantly improved memory scores beyond that of the control group, suggesting that memory remediation is effective for head-injury patients with memory deficits. Discussion of findings and suggestions for further investigation are presented.

DOI

10.3109/02699059209008124

Volume

6

Issue

1

First Page

65

Last Page

70

NSUWorks Citation

Freeman, M. R., Mittenberg, W., Dicowden, M., Bat-Ami., M. (1992). Executive and Compensatory Memory Retraining in Traumatic Brain Injury.. Brain Injury, 6(1), 65-70.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facarticles/221