@article{ref1,
title="Communicating using the eyes without remembering it: cognitive rehabilitation in a severely brain-injured patient with amnesia, tetraplegia and anarthria",
journal="Journal of rehabilitation medicine",
year="2009",
author="Trojano, Luigi and Moretta, Pasquale and Estraneo, Anna",
volume="41",
number="5",
pages="393-396",
abstract="We describe here a case of cognitive rehabilitation in a young patient with closed head injury, who had dense anterograde amnesia and such disabling neurological defects (tetraplegia and anarthria) that the condition evoked some features of an incomplete locked-in syndrome. After a prolonged period of no communicative possibility, the patient underwent a specific training, based on principles of errorless learning, with the aim of using a computerized eye-tracker system. Although, due to memory disturbances, the patient always denied ever having used the eye-tracker system, learned to use the computerized device and improved interaction with the environment. This favourable outcome may serve as a stimulus for devising new training approaches in patients with complex patterns of cognitive impairments, even when associated with severe motor impairments.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1650-1977",
doi="10.2340/16501977-0344",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.2340/16501977-0344"
}