NeuroPsychOnline, Cutting Edge Telehealth Application for Diagnosis and Treatment of Impaired Brain Function
NeuroPsychOnline, a pioneer and leader in the arenas of telehealth applications and the cognitive rehabilitation treatment of those with impaired brain functions, announces that it has now gone international.
(PRWEB via PR Web Direct) October
22, 2004 -- NeuroPsychOnline, a pioneer and leader in the arenas of telehealth
applications and the cognitive rehabilitation treatment of those with impaired
brain functions, announces that it has now gone international. The subscription
based website is now serving clinical professionals and patients in Australia,
Canada, England, India, Korea, and Saudi Arabia in addition to its home base
here in the United States.
The web based service now has over 100
members providing diagnostic and therapy services to 680+ brain impaired
patients. Dr. Odie Bracy, a neuropsychologist, founder of NeuroPsychOnline and a
leader in the development of cognitive rehabilitation therapies since 1982, says
that this new internet based system (www.neuropsychonline.com) for neuropsychological diagnostics
and cognitive rehabilitation therapy, "is a natural evolution of the services
that we have provided at the Neuroscience Center of Indianapolis (NSC) since
1984." NSC is a clinical service and research facility established in 1984 to
provide diagnostic, rehabilitation and psychotherapy services to those with
cognitive and/or psychological problems having a neurological basis or producing
neurological symptoms. Clinical services at NSC include diagnostic and
therapeutic treatment programs for individuals who are experiencing brain
injury, stroke, learning/developmental disabilities, attention deficit disorders
or other neurological based anomalies.
The purpose of the cognitive
rehabilitation therapy offered at the NeuroScience Center is to help an
individual acquire the highest level of cognitive functioning and functional
independence possible for that individual. This is accomplished through
treatment programs utilizing retraining strategies, teaching the use of
compensatory skills (for areas not amenable to retraining), counseling,
environmental restructuring, utilizing the services of educational and
vocational training facilities and following our patients as they go into their
next placement, be it work, school or just better living at home. Our work with
the patient centers around that person's thinking skills, perception, memory,
problem solving and responses. We (with hard work from our patients) have
succeeded in producing statistically significant improvements in
psychometrically measured indices of cognitive functioning; however, it is our
goal that these changes result in significant improvement in functioning and
meaningful participation in daily life events.
Our therapy program is
set up as a homebased, outpatient computer assisted rehabilitation program. The
patient is seen at our center for 1 one-hour visit each week. During this
intensive, interactive session, we evaluate the patient on all therapy exercises
prescribed at the last session, troubleshoot cognitive strategies and
performance difficulties, re-evaluate our treatment plan and prescribe the
therapy exercise assignments for the upcoming week.The patient then performs the
therapy exercises at home, on their own computer, for at least 2 to 3 one-hour
periods each and every day between the weekly sessions at the center. The whole
program, as we administer it, typically takes the patient about 9 to 12 months
to complete.
Now, we are providing the homebased therapy services to our
patients over the internet and through NeuroPsychOnline we are enabling other
facilities and professionals to do the same. The NPO website is divided into two
Libraries -- the Library Of Neuropsychological Applications (LONA), which
contains applications for assessment, differential diagnosis, clinical report
writing, and treatment, and the Library Of Neuropsychological Information
(LONI), which contains educational information about neuroanatomy and
neurophysiology along with full access to the eJournal of Cognitive
Rehabilitation and 21 years of its archived articles. One must experience NPO
over the internet to fully appreciate how nicely this teletherapy system
operates. For more detailed information, one can go to www.neuropsychonline.com and "Take A Tour."
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