Cognitive Rehabilitation after a Stroke
Stroke is a cerebrovascular disease that occurs when a blood vessel supplying blood to the brain bursts or is clogged by a blood clot or some other particle. If the blood supply which carries oxygen…
Tag: Neurorehabilitation Activities
Cognitive stimulation
Cognitive stimulation involves a range of activities aimed at maintaining or improving cognitive function. It targets cognitive domains such as orientation, attention, memory, language, executive functions, gnosis, praxis, visuospatial skills, social cognition, etc. Cognitive stimulation…
Activities for improving orientation
For most of us, it can be easy to answer questions like who are you? where are you now? or what day is today? For those with orientation impairments, however, these questions are really complicated….
Sustained attention impairment and rehabilitation
What is attention? Attention is a basic, multidimensional cognitive ability, essential for information processing[1].On the one hand, it is considered basic because it is essential for the correct functioning of higher-order psychological processes such as…
Social Cognition or Understanding Others: Social Cognition Activities
Do you know, thanks to which cognitive function are we capable of interpreting other people’s emotions? Can you identify the function responsible for understanding what others might think in certain situations? Or do you know…
Memory games for seniors: Worksheets for improving memory
A couple of weeks ago, our blog entry focused on worksheets for improving attention and memory in children and adults. In today’s post, we introduce 5 memory exercises for older adults developed by NeuronUP. 5…
7 Exercises for the rehabilitation of visuospatial skills
Do you know what visuospatial skills are, why are they important, or how can they be improved? Today, we explain this cognitive function and introduce 7 exercises for the rehabilitation of visuospatial skills in adults and…
10 Exercises for Improving Language
Languages one of the main cognitive functions that allows us to produce, communicate, and understand ideas through sounds, symbols and/or gestures. In other owrds, language is ‘the result of a complex nervous activity that allows…
6 activities to improve memory
“Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us”, Oscar Wilde once wrote. Memory is the storage of information and personal experiences. It gives us the capability to learn and adapt. Thanks to…
Activities to improve executive functions
As we promised, today we are sharing some activities to improve executive functions. Activities to improve executive functions: 1. Bottle Caps In this exercise, clients have to arrange the moving bottle caps in…