ABSTRACT

Objective: The purpose of study was to verify the clinical effect of a attention training with eye movement program(called EYAS) for recovering the attention and cognition in brain injury. Methods: For this purpose, 7 stroke and TBI with cognitive disabilities participated in a clinical experiment to verify the effect of attention training with eye movement program. The intervention tool was the eye tracking-linkaged attention training system(EYAS) which is computer–based cognitive rehabilitation program. All participant were evaluated with four standardized assessment tools(MMSE-K, MVPT, CNT) before, middle, after the planned intervention sessions. Cognitive interventions were intensively carried out for 16weeks, half an hour per session, 3 times a week. Results: The results were as follows. Three intervention periods for MVPT and CNT showed differences in cognitive abilities after the interventions as expected. The attention, response speed, memory, visual perception were improved significantly compared to before intervention. The cognition(MMSE-K, MVPT, CNT) scores after EYAS interventions were higher than before it's interventions. Conclusion: These results indicate that the attention training with eye movement program have effects on improving cognitive abilities(memory, visual perception) and response speed in brain injury patients. Further studies are needed to verify the effect on various group and more participants(ex, child).