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S Giaquinto

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THINKable, a computerized cognitive remediation. First results.

We have carried out the first study in Italy on the cognitive remediation by a new computerized system developed by IBM and called THINKable. Statistical analyses revealed that on some measures there was a significant improvement in the level of performance of the subjects at the time of the posttreatment assessment compared with the pretreatment assessment. Disorders of memory and higher cognitive functioning improved by structured retraining, independently of attention. Improvement has been matched by changes in the patients real-word functioning. Senile patients also took advantage from cognitive training. They were already followed before as outpatients and had no spontaneous recovery. The role of personal computers in neuropsychological training is discussed.

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[Medico-social problems in the recovery from stroke].

Until a few years ago physicians were not rehabilitation-oriented, but recent discoveries regarding the plasticity of the nervous system have made the patient with an acute cerebrovascular lesion a clinical model of great interest. Furthermore, the severity of the frequent residual invalidities and the high social costs are the reasons why this field of medicine is becoming increasingly important. The clinical study of stroke has not changed much during the past century. Perhaps our semeiological abilities are not the same but we have improved our knowledge of the neurosciences and we know that in the acute phase we have to look towards the patient's future and not only at his current condition. A certain degree of recovery occurs immediately after stroke thanks to the resolution of secondary events such as edema and ischemia. Other factors that may have important effects on recovery include the localization, nature, extension and degree of brain damage, the patient's sex and age, the duration of coma, the patient's original cognitive capacity, his personality and motivation as well as the duration and intensity of rehabilitation and the time before starting rehabilitation. Many of these variables are difficult to check in trials performed in humans. Statistical problems make it difficult to prove any beneficial effect of rehabilitation. Some recent trials have shown statistically significant improvements attributable to rehabilitation. For instance, exercise under visual stimulation around a scotoma has been shown to reduce the area of blindness. The improvements occurred only after exercise and never spontaneously. What happens when rehabilitation favours recovery?(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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On the stability with age of anagram forming.

Twelve young and 12 old subscribers to an Italian magazine of riddles were invited by mail to form an anagram from a string of meaningful words consisting of 30 letters. Each of the participants was classified as either "overskilled" or "normal". All of the overskilled subjects, regardless of age, employed the 30 letters, whereas only the 50% of the remaining subjects did so. Even stronger differences were seen with regard to the number of complete anagrams. The overskilled elderly outscored the young adults, but the latter paid more attention to the quality of the anagrams. The article confirms previous results on the stability with age of anagram ability.

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[The phantom limb].

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