Las alteraciones de la atención y su rehabilitación en trauma craneoencefálico

Abstract

Attention deficit is one of the most common problems after a brain injury, affecting
also the proper functioning of other important cognitive processes like memory,
executive functions, orientation, concentration, amongst others. This article has
for objective, to describe the attention and the alterations that are produced as
a consequence of craneoencephalic trauma and to review the contributions of
the neuropsychological rehabilitation in the management of these patients. To
achieve this, a search for information was performed seven years back and some
pioneers on the subject. It was found that the attention is an essential mechanism
in human activity that does not depend on an exclusive specialized area, but is the
result of the interaction between the components of a net, therefore, the alterations
that are present after a craneoencephalic trauma produce profound deficits in
the attention and affecting the autonomy of the patient. The neuropsychological
rehabilitation constitutes itself in an ideal intervention for this cases, considering
that it should be done in an integral and continuous way in time, this influences
other spheres, like conductual, emotional and social, that allow the patient to
reinsert himself in better conditions to the daily life activities.