Estimulação cognitiva na lesão cerebral adquirida com recurso à Systemic Lisbon Battery

Abstract

The focus of this work is to study the benefit of using the Systemic Lisbon Battery (SLB), a Virtual Reality Platform, in a structured intervention plan, with a focus on the rehabilitation of the cognitive functions that are most often involved in neurological pathology. This dissertation aims to verify if there are differences in the executive function, attention span, and memory of the inpatient between the initial and final evaluation performed in the intervention protocol from a clinical sample. The clinical sample consists of eleven inpatients from CMRA with Acquired Brain Injury aged between 25 and 74 years old. Nine of whom suffered from a stroke and two from traumatic brain injury. This work leverages the neuropsychological tests MoCA, FAB, EMW, and CTT to perform the assessment before and after the cognitive stimulation sessions. An evaluation of the hereby-presented work did not allow the detection of significant differences between the two assessment moments. Although, with an individual analysis by the reliable change indices better results were observed in the neuropsychological domains after the intervention. No significant improvements were verified in the inpatients condition. However, throughout the whole experiment, SLB allowed for the preservation of the inpatient’s cognitive abilities.

Date of Award	2021
Original language	Portuguese
Supervisor	JORGE ALEXANDRE GASPAR OLIVEIRA (Supervisor)