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Anoxic brain injury is common and occurs in a wide variety of disorders. The
anoxic injury has characteristic pathologies in particular affecting the medial
temporal lobe, basal ganglia and deep white matter.
The neural injury is
associated with significant and persistent cognitive impairments and poor
functional outcomes, related in part to the severity of anoxia and assumed to
relate to the degree of structural damage evidenced on neuroimaging during the
chronic stage. To date neuroimaging following ABI has been used diagnostically
with less research focused on guiding or predicting rehabilitation outcome.
Because of the distribution of these lesions/abnormalities the degree of damage
has practical implications for rehabilitation outcome. Research is needed to
understand cognitive and functional outcomes following ABI as well as whether
specific rehabilitation techniques or strategies will result in better outcomes.

Langue : ANGLAIS