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Elissa will present her project at NEUROday

Elissa is invited to talk about her research project “Does visuospatial neglect contribute to standing balance after stroke? A longitudinal cohort study” at NEUROday UAntwerp!

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Slimmer meten is beter weten? De mogelijkheden van mixed reality bij mensen met een hersenletsel

Hanne Huygelier en Elissa Embrechts gaven onlangs een interessante workshop over het gebruik van mixed reality voor de assessment en revalidatie van mensen met een hersenletsel. De workshop was speciaal bedoeld voor logopedisten en audiologen en vond plaats aan de Thomas More Hogeschool in Antwerpen. Tijdens de workshop kregen de deelnemers de kans om kennis…

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Updating the Occupational Therapy Guidelines for Brain Injury

Ergotherapie Nederland has started updating the Occupational Therapy Guidelines for Brain Injury. Tanja Nijboer is a member of the working group and, together with other experts – in the field of vision and cognition – will process the recent scientific, professional and client insights into a good update. This includes both assessment, and treatment. Aanvraag…

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New look-and-feel of the CoCo-P 

The CoCo-P is an instrument for estimating cognitive complaints during daily life situations. It was developed by Spreij et al. and has been used in several clinical studies. Cognitive complaints occur in people with brain damage, yet also in people without brain injury. We adapted the Dutch CoCo-P to make it more suitable for both…

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Sanne heeft een lezing gegeven bij een trainersbijeenkomst van de ABN AMRO

Sanne Böing gaf op 15 februari een lezing bij een trainersbijeenkomst van de ABN AMRO. Hoe draag je je kennis en kunde aan je (nieuwe) collega’s over op een effectieve manier? Sanne presenteerde over het belang van aandacht, hoe je die kunt sturen, en wat je vooral níet moet doen als je wil dat je…

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New paper! Zooming in on abnormal local and global processing biases after stroke: Frequency, lateralization, and associations with cognitive functions.

The ‘attentional spotlight’ can be adjusted depending on the task requirements, resulting in processing information at either the local or global level. We showed in a sample of 192 patients stroke can lead to local or global processing biases, or the inability to simultaneously attend both levels. Abnormal local and global biases related to a…

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208 Participants have already filled out the CoCo-P survey!

We have translated our CoCo-P, Cogitive Complaints during Participation activities to Polish and Greek! The CoCo-P is a questionnaire that measures the presence and severity of cognitive complaints and fatigue with emphasis on daily living activities among patients with acquired brain injury. The overarching aim of the following studies is to translate and adapt the…

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New Survey for Polish and Greek/Cypriot volunteers!

We have translated our CoCo-P, Cogitive Complaints during Participation activities to Polish and Greek! The CoCo-P is a questionnaire that measures the presence and severity of cognitive complaints and fatigue with emphasis on daily living activities among patients with acquired brain injury. The overarching aim of the following studies is to translate and adapt the…

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