Principles of Cognitive Rehabilitation

Dr. Nejati is a professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Shahid Beheshti University. He serves as the president of the Iranian Association of Cognitive Science and Technology (since January 2019). He has designed and developed several cognitive rehabilitation packages and cognitive assessment tools in the field. Being a visiting scholar at both the University of Regensburg in Germany and Uppsala University in Sweden, he has published several journal papers and books in the fields of cognitive rehabilitation.

Part I. Foundation

Part II: Primary Principles 1. Principle of Neural Plasticity 2. Principle of Compensation 3. Principle of Relearning 4. Principle of Verbalization 5. Principle of Automatization 6. Principle of Errorless Learning 7. Principle of Multi-Sensory Learning 8. Principle of Active Learning 9. Principle of Observational Learning 10. Principle of Implicit Learning 11. Principle of Emotional Learning 12. Principle of Offline Learning 13. Principle of Directed Forgetting 14. Principle of Processing Level 15. Principle of Context Dependent Learning

Part III: Program-Related Principles 16. Principle of Model 17. Principle of Specificity 18. Principle of Overload 19. Principle of Variety 20. Principle of Repetition

Part IV: Process-Related Principles Introduction: Part 4 21. Principle of Assessment 22. Principle of Goal Setting 23. Principle of Support 24. Principle of Transferability 25. Principle of Termination

Part V: Patient-Related Principles 26. Principle of Motivation 27. Principle of Effort 28. Principle of Expectation 29. Principle of Individual Differences 30. Principle of Family Empowerment

Part VI: Practitioner-Related Principles 31. Principle of Adherence 32. Principle of Treatment Competency 33. Principle of Ethics 34. Principle of Alliance 35. Principle of Teamwork