MAJOR AREAS OF COGNITIVE DIFFICULTY
AFTER BRAIN TRAUMA
from Ellen Bouchard
- Attention (freedom from distractibility, ability to ignore irrelevant information or events)
- Orientation
- Memory (short and/or long term recall for information, recall of information acquired before trauma)
- Verbal Reasoning and Problem Solving
- Non-verbal (Perceptual) Reasoning and Problem Solving
- Social Reasoning (social judgement, responsiveness to feedback from others)
- Higher Executive Abilities (insight, self-monitoring, flexibility of thought)
