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Multidisciplinary rehabilitation programs are coordinated from the
Neuro-psychological Department and applied to all patients from the
database obtained during the assessment process. The specific area
of this department is made up of 3 closely related divisions:
- cognitive disorders
- behavioral disorders
- emotional disorders
Cognitive disorders are problems of memory, attention, reasoning, and executive
functioning, etc. These deficiencies prevent the patient from being
independent in most cases and limit his/her capacity to benefit from
other areas of treatment such as physiotherapy or speech therapy, a
basic part of treatment.
Behavioral disorders have a more distorted
influence on the patient's family and caretakers; irritability,
aggressivity, uninhibitedness, childish behavior, hypersexuality, etc.
often make it impossible to live together and therefore should be
taken care of at the beginning.
Emotional disorders usually appear in
the advanced phases of the patient's evolution, often when he/she has
had cognitive improvement and begins to notice his/her deficiencies
and the consequences of them in their lives.
All of these impairments must therefore be acted upon in a holistic
way by specialized personnel.
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