Cognitive Assessment after Brain Injury
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Disabilities".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 539
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cognitive impairment following brain injury is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Cognitive impairment is a common result of brain injury resulting from trauma, such as in falls, road accidents or sports-related injuries, or other causes, including vascular, infective or inflammatory insults. The consequences of cognitive impairment can be devastating for the brain injury survivors, their families and the wider society. However the cognitive consequences of brain injury are often not apparent unless cognitive function is carefully assessed. Accurate cognitive assessment is therefore extremely important: not only does it enable clinical care by identifying rehabilitation needs and by evaluating response to treatments in individual patients, but it also empowers research examining the impact of brain injury or the effect of new interventions. However, cognitive assessment in brain injury presents considerable challenges. The cognitive landscape following brain injury is complex and variable, as the combination and severity of cognitive impairments depends on the cause, severity and distribution of the injury to the brain. Common problems following brain injury, such as fatigue, pain, mood disturbance, perceptual, motor or communication difficulties can present considerable barriers to cognitive assessment. Additionally, cognitive performance is a function of premorbid cognitive ability and education, and assessment can also be influenced by linguistic, socioeconomic and cultural factors. Cost, availablitiy and feasibility of cognitive assessment are key considerations in the context of limited resources in healthcare and research, particularly in low-income settings.
Papers addressing these problems are invited for this Special Issue, including original research studies, methodological papers, reviews and meta-analyses. Topics of particular interest include innovative cognitive assessments designed for specific brain injury populations such as traumatic brain injury or hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury following cardiac arrest, computerised cognitive tasks suitable for remote deployment online, gamification, patient engagement, longitudinal assessment, validation, cost, feasibility and accessibility aspects, especially in low-income or culturally diverse settings.
Dr. Nikos Gorgoraptis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cognitive assessment
- neuropsychological assessment
- traumatic brain injury
- hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury
- encephalitis
- stroke
- low-income settings
- feasibility
- cost-effectiveness
- gamification
- accessibility
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