Changes in the Brain Impact on Daily Life
This informative text details the many changes in everyday life as the result of injury, illness, or aging affecting the brain. Experts across brain-related fields trace mechanisms of conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, TBI, and dementia as they impac
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Changes in the Brain Impact on Daily Life
Changes in the Brain
Nancy D. Chiaravalloti • Yael Goverover Editors
Changes in the Brain Impact on Daily Life
Editors Nancy D. Chiaravalloti Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ, USA
Yael Goverover Department of Occupational Therapy Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development New York University New York, NY, USA
ISBN 978-0-387-98187-1 ISBN 978-0-387-98188-8 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-98188-8
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Preface: Laying the Framework
Often, we meet clients in our practice who have had a brain injury or another type of neurological illness. When trying to explain the importance of the brain, we tell them that our brain directs everything our body does. Without the brain, or to be more realistic, without its functions, we would not be able to do most of the things we do on a daily basis, from the mundane to the rare. Our brain is a central processing unit that translates our thoughts, feelings, memories, and opinions into a complicated nerve cell firing process and chemical release. These processes are responsible for our behaviors, and these connections are complicated and difficult to explain. Recently, there has been a growing awareness of the functional implications caused by the injured brain. Traditionally, professionals have used neuropsychological batteries or impairment-based assessments to document the patients’ symptoms. These traditional assessments, however, do not focus on learning how the symptoms interfere with daily activities, or why. We were inspired to compile this book because in the past 20 years we have seen numerous clients through clinical practice
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