Memory Rehabilitation

Barbara Wilson

Medical Research Council, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Cambridge, England

The main focus of the course is to help participants select treatment goals and plan memory rehabilitation programs.  In particular we look at environmental adaptations, compensatory procedures and methods to enhance learning.  Will also address how to structure and evaluate intervention programs and to combine treatment for the cognitive and emotional sequelae of brain injury.  Different theories, models and frameworks of rehabilitation are considered.  Practical problem solving exercises are included.

Prerequisites: Suitable for clinical and neuropsychologists, psychiatrists, speech and language therapists and occupational therapists.  Participants should have some experience of working with people with organic memory deficits.  Some understanding of behavioral psychology and learning theory would be an advantage.


 First Session

Consider:
1) the characteristics of memory impaired people including unusual presentations,
2) personal perspectives from patients and families,
3) video tapes of patients.


 

Second Session

Consider:
1) procedures for identifying everyday memory problems (neuropsychological and functional measures,
2) discuss ways of determining to what extent the memory problems are exacerbated by other cognitive difficulties and by emotional, social, and behavioral problems.


Course Reading List


Baddeley, A.D., Kopelman, M., & Wilson, B.A. (2002).  The Handbook of Memory Disorders, second edition.  Chichester: John Wiley.
 

Clare, L., & Wilson, B.A. (1997).  Coping with Memory Problems:  A Practical Guide for People with Memory Impairments, Relatives, Friends and Careers.  Bury St Edmunds:  Thames Valley Test Company.
 

Clare, L., Wilson, B.A., Breen, E.K., & Hodges, J.R. (1999).  Errorless learning of face-name associations in early Alzheimer's disease.  Neurocase, 5, 37-46.
 

Clare, L., Wilson, B.A., Carter, G., Breen, K., Gosses, A. & Hodges, J.R. (2000).  Intervening with everyday memory problems in Dementia of Alzheimer Type: An errorless learning approach.  Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 22, 132-146.
 

Evans, J.J., Wilson, B.A., Needham, P., & Brentnall, S. (in press).  Who makes good use of memory-aids:  Results of a survey of 100 people with acquired brain injury, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.
 

Kapur, N., Glisky, E.L., & Wilson, B.A. (2002).  External memory aids and computers in memory rehabilitation. In A.D. Baddeley, M. Kopelman & B.A. Wilson (Eds).  The Handbook of Memory Disorders: second edition.  Chichester:  John Wiley. 757-783.
 

McMillan, T.M., Robertson, I.H., & Wilson, B.A. (1999). Neurogenesis after brain injury.  Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 9, 129-133.
 

Williams, W.H., Evans, J.J., & Wilson, B.A. (in press). Neurorehabilitation for two cases of post-traumatic stress disorder following traumatic brain injury.


Williams, W.H., Evans, J.J., Wilson, B.A., & Needham, P.  (2002). Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms after severe brain injury in  a representative community sample. Brain Injury, 16, 673-679.
 

Wilson, B.A. (1997). Cognitive rehabilitation:  How it is and how it might be. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 3, 487-496.
 

Wilson, B.A. (1998). Recovery of cognitive funcitons following nonprogressive brain injury.  Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 8, 281-287.
 

Wilson, B.A. (1999). Case Studies in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. New York: Oxford University Press.
 

Wilson, B.A. (2000). Compensating for cognitive deficits following brain injury.  Neuropsychology Review, 10, 233-243.
 

Wilson, B.A. (2002). Towards a comprehensive model of cognitive rehabilitation. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 12, 97-110.
 

Wilson, B.A., Emslie, H.C., Quirk, K., & Evans, J.J. (2001). Reducing everyday memory and planning problems by means of a paging system:  A randomised control crossover study.  Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 70477-482.
 

Wilson, B.A., Evans, J.J., Emslie, H., & Malinek, V. (1997). Evaluation of NeuroPage: A new memory aid. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 63, 113-115.
 

Wilson, B.A., J.C., & Hughes, E. (1997). Coping with amnesia:  The natural history of a compensatory memory system. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 7, 43-56. 

 

Wilson, B.A., Watson, P.C., Baddeley, A.D., Emslie, H., & Evans, J.J. (2000). Improvement or simply practice?  The effects of twenty repeated assessments on people with and without brain injury. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 6, 469-479.
 

Wilson, B.A. (in press). Treatment and recovery from brain damage. In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. London: Nature Publishing Group.
 

Wilson, B.A. (2002). Assessment of memory disorders. In A.D. Baddeley, M. Kopelman & B.A. Wilson (Eds.) The Handbook of Memory Disorders: second edition. Chichester: John Wiley, 617-654.
 

Wilson, B.A. (2002). Management and remediation of memory disorders. In A.D. Baddeley, M. Kopelman & B.A. Wilson (Eds.) The Handbook of Memory Disorders: second edition. Chichester: John Wiley. 655-682.
 

Wilson, B.A., & Evans, J.J. (2002). Does cognitive rehabilitation work? Clinical and economical considerations and outcomes. In G. Prigatano (Ed.) Clinical Neuropsychology and Cost-Outcome Research: An Introduction.  Hove: Psychology Press.