Program for Rehabilitation of Neuropsychological Functions affected in Hemorrhagic Stroke (CVA) patients) in Basal Ganglia

Abstract

The efficacy of a neuropsychological rehabilitation program applied in an 82-year-old female patient, who suffered a Vascular Brain Accident (CVA), with involvement of the basal ganglia and consequent neurocognitive limitation, was determined. For this purpose, strategies and tools were used. of neuropsychological intervention according to the need of the cognitive deficits that it presented after the neuropsychological evaluation, determined through instruments such as Neuropsi, Wescheler’s Memory Scale, Stroop, Test of Complex King Figures and the Evaluation of the Mini Mental State Evaluation , deficits in attention functions, memory, language and praxies; the program was based on activities related to its daily development within its context, developed in six stages, structured in 17 sessions, during two months, achieving significant advances, after which it is denoted optimized cognitive functions and a better functional development within personal, family and social context.