Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of cognitive rehabilitation for a stroke patient suffering from longer-term cognitive difficulty without management. Neuropsychological tests were administered to plan the intervention procedure for rehabilitation therapy. The individual exhibits attention and memory deficits after cerebral hemorrhage due to moya-moya disease 10 years earlier and she had undergone no cognitive rehabilitation to date. She was given 10 months of various cognitive rehabilitation trainings for attention and visual perception, stage by stage, both in the hospital and at home. Intensive cognitive rehabilitation resulted in improvement of her WAIS-R and WMS-R scores in spite of the long duration from onset and her ability to use a notebook as a memory aid in daily life. We considered the implications of the study results for future studies of more late-stage intervention.
