ABSTRACT

This chapter shows a panel discussion of following persons about Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. B. P. Uzzell says that many questions need to be addressed in the field of rehabilitation. Throughout history, there have been, and will continue to be, individuals who sustain brain injuries. In the past two decades, more of these individuals than ever are surviving. Many of them are young people whose life expectancy may be a further fifty or sixty years. Neuropsychological rehabilitation is a human, personal activity both for individuals needing services and therapists providing them. Claudio Perino says that rehabilitation may also be unethical in some cases where general neurorehabilitation techniques to some extent may be harmful. Jose Leon-Carrion says that, the greater the socioeconomic and cultural status (SECS), the better the prognosis for the patient. Barbara Wilson says that rehabilitation includes all measures aimed at reducing the impact of disabling and handicapping conditions and is enabling disabled people to achieve optimum social integration.