Poster Presentation
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 90(10), e19-e20
Kristen Dams-O’Connor, Matthew Lebowitz, Joshua Cantor, Wayne Gordon and Laila Spina
Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
Objective: To explore the feasibility of a computerized cognitive skill-building program for individuals with acute traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Design: Case study.
Setting: Inpatient TBI rehabilitation unit at an urban medical facility.
Patient: 20-year-old woman with severe TBI, 65 days post-injury. Patient was out of PTA during study.
Main Outcome Measures: (1) Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metrics (ANAM-4), a validated computerized neuropsychological battery that tests processing speed, working memory, attention, encoding, spatial processing, and accuracy. (2) User Experience Survey and brief interview assessing overall experience and impressions of training program.
Conclusions: Computerized cognitive skill-building program is usable by a subset of individuals with TBI during acute inpatient rehabilitation. Recommendations for increasing the feasibility of this intervention on an inpatient unit are discussed.