Study Center Of Neurocognitive Rehabilitation

The Neurocognitive Rehabilitation Study Center is a public service created in 2001 from the collaboration of ULSS n.4 "Alto Vicentino" and the Municipality of Santorso (VI). At the Center, alongside clinical activity (10 beds dedicated to neurological patients or with neuropathic pain), study, research and training activities are carried out concerning the Neurocognitive Theory of Rehabilitation. The Neurocognitive Theory of Rehabilitation was born in the 1970s from the brilliant intuitions of Prof. Carlo Perfetti and has developed, and is still evolving, thanks to clinical experience, to the study of the most recent acquisitions in the various fields of basic sciences ( neurophysiology, neuropsychology, psychology, pedagogy, philosophy ...) and the continuous comparison that Perfetti himself led together with his collaborators. This theory is based on a systemic view of man who sees the activation of Cognitive Processes (attention, memory, perception, language, motor image, solution of problems ...), according to certain modalities, the most appropriate tool for recovery motor of the patient with brain injury, or other lessons of the nervous system, and for overcoming neuropathic pain. The Neurocognitive Rehabilitation, understood as a learning process in pathological conditions, aims to reorganize the neural structures damaged by the lesion or altered by dysfunctions that for various reasons have come to create within the mind-body relationship. Unlike normal physiotherapy procedures, the Neurocognitive Exercise is not only physical, as it is not only mental, since it is proposed as an activity that puts the body and mind in a close dynamic relationship.