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Neurology and Neuroscience
6
th
International Conference on
T
he growing evidence that our environment, behaviours,
and emotions may either increase the rate of neuronal
death, or facilitate neurogenesis, opens up new horizons
for neurorehabilitation. The brain stimulation can cause
an increase in cortical thickness, neuronal branching and
number of synapses. We already know that the adult brain
can show large experience-dependent change in neural
circuits. Since neuronal plasticity is preserved to some extent
in older people and Alzheimer’s patients, we try to reactivate
atrophic neurons or regenerate synapses through Cognitive
Neurorehabilitation. Every day throughout much of the world,
thousands of therapists try to shape recovery in the damaged
brains. They offer structured experience through cognitive
training or cognitive stimulation. However, we must know how
exactly neurorehabilitation works in order to design effective
therapeutic programmes along scientific principles. Experience-
dependent plastic reorganization depends heavily on the level
of attention skills. Therefore, the enhancement of attention
is the primary goal. It might have a further significance,
however, as an intervening step in enhancing other types of
cognitive, motor and perceptual function, given that attention
is a key element of new learning. In the third millennium, cross-
disciplinary neuroscientific research is likely to be the key to
advancing our understanding of brain plasticity.
Speaker Biography
Kounti F has completed her PhD in Cognitive psychology in the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece. She is a Cognitive neuropsychologist and the dementia lead of
BRINA,-Brains In Action UK. She has co-authored 9 books in relation to older people,
dementia diagnosis, cognitive training and care giving topics. Also, she has designed
and tested more than 20 different cognitive training programs for older people aiming
in dementia prevention and delay. She has delivered 27 publications in prestigious
scientific journals worldwide. She had been the dementia lead of 4-day Clinics
operating under the Greek Ministry of Health and the Greek Alzheimer’s Disease
Association. Since 1995 she co-founded, and has been serving as a board member of,
the Alzheimer’s Disease Association and later the Federation of Alzheimer’s disease
in Greece.
e:
f.kounti@brainsinaction.ukKounti F
BRINA Ltd, UK
Cognitive Neurorehabilitation during aging and Alzheimer’s disease: Is it effective?