Quadriplegia - Psychology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Coping effectiveness training during acute rehabilitation of spinal cord injury/dysfunction: a randomized clinical trial.

29 Apr 2009 PURPOSE: To compare coping effectiveness training (CET) with supportive group therapy (SGT) for anxiety, depression, and adjustment to injury in an acute spinal cord injury/dysfunction (SCI/D) rehabilitation population. CET was shown to result in ... Read more...

Communicating using the eyes without remembering it: cognitive rehabilitation in a severely brain-injured patient with amnesia, tetraplegia and anarthria.

30 Mar 2009 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 ... Read more...

What predicts post-traumatic stress following spinal cord injury?

Nov 2008 OBJECTIVES: Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a severe, traumatic event and recently research into the role of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) subsequent to the injury has become of increasing interest. This study has been conducted in order to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Quadriplegia - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Center caters to children's needs. 30 Aug 2009
• Coping effectiveness training during acute rehabilitation of spinal cord injury/dysfunction: a randomized clinical trial. 29 Apr 2009
• Communicating using the eyes without remembering it: cognitive rehabilitation in a severely brain-injured patient with amnesia, tetraplegia and anarthria. 30 Mar 2009
• What predicts post-traumatic stress following spinal cord injury? Nov 2008
• Advocacy and client relationships: setting boundaries--with a heart. 30 Oct 2008
• A preliminary study on the impact of pushrim-activated power-assist wheelchairs among individuals with tetraplegia. 29 Sep 2008
• Mind over body: the diving bell and the butterfly. 30 Aug 2008
• Gertrude can't talk. 29 Jun 2008
• A comparative review of life satisfaction, quality of life and mood between Chinese and British people with tetraplegia. 22 Jun 2008
• Home literacy predictors of early reading development in children with cerebral palsy. 7 Jun 2008
• Deficient mental own-body imagery in a neurological patient with out-of-body experiences due to cannabis use. 3 Jun 2008
• The meaning of assisted feeding for people living with spinal cord injury: a phenomenological study. 30 May 2008
• Assisted feeding. 30 May 2008
• Survival of persons with locked-in syndrome. 29 Apr 2008
• A patient with acute traumatic quadriplegia who requested a DNR order. 29 Apr 2008
• Locked-in syndrome. 30 Mar 2008
• [Blink and you live: the locked-in syndrome] 30 Mar 2008
• Management of pathologic laughter and crying in patients with locked-in syndrome: a report of 4 cases. 30 Mar 2008
• Three persons with multiple disabilities accessing environmental stimuli and asking for social contact through microswitch and VOCA technology. 30 Mar 2008
• Cognitive function in the locked-in syndrome. 18 Mar 2008

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Technical information about 'Quadriplegia'

Definition: Severe or complete loss of motor function in all four limbs which may result from BRAIN DISEASES; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; or rarely MUSCULAR DISEASES. The locked-in syndrome is characterized by quadriplegia in combination with cranial muscle paralysis. Consciousness is spared and the only retained voluntary motor activity may be limited eye movements. This condition is usually caused by a lesion in the upper BRAIN STEM which injures the descending cortico-spinal and cortico-bulbar tracts.

Descriptor UI: D011782

Alternative terms: Quadriplegia; Quadriplegias; Tetraplegia; Tetraplegias; Spastic Quadriplegia; Quadriplegia, Spastic; Quadriplegias, Spastic; Spastic Quadriplegias; Spastic Tetraplegia; Spastic Tetraplegias; Tetraplegia, Spastic; Tetraplegias, Spastic; Paralysis, Spinal, Quadriplegic; Quadriparesis; Quadripareses; Flaccid Quadriplegia; Flaccid Quadriplegias; Quadriplegia, Flaccid; Quadriplegias, Flaccid; Flaccid Tetraplegia; Flaccid Tetraplegias; Tetraplegia, Flaccid; Tetraplegias, Flaccid; Locked-In Syndrome; Locked In Syndrome; Locked-In Syndromes; Syndrome, Locked-In; Syndromes, Locked-In;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.597.622.760; C23.888.592.636.786;

History Note: 1967(1964)