EVALUATION OF NEUROPAGE - A NEW MEMORY AID

Citation
Ba. Wilson et al., EVALUATION OF NEUROPAGE - A NEW MEMORY AID, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 63(1), 1997, pp. 113-115
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,"Clinical Neurology
ISSN journal
00223050
Volume
63
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
113 - 115
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-3050(1997)63:1<113:EON-AN>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
This report describes NeuroPage, a simple and portable paging system, developed in California by the engineer father of a son with head inju ry working together with a neuropsychologist. Using an ABA single case experimental design, the efficacy of NeuroPage was evaluated with 15 neurologically impaired subjects all of whom had significant everyday memory problems because of organic memory impairment or because of pro blems with planning and organisation consequent on frontal lobe damage . Data were analysed with an odds ratio test which takes into account different underlying success rates for each target and calculates an a verage improvement factor. This test showed a significant improvement between the baseline and the treatment phases for each subject (P<0.05 ).