A decision-neuroscientific intervention to improve cognitive recovery after stroke.

ABSTRACT: Functional recovery after stroke is dose-dependent on the amount of rehabilitative training. However, rehabilitative training is subject to motivational hurdles. Decision neuroscience formalizes drivers and dampers of behaviour and provides strategies for tipping motivational trade-offs and behaviour change. Here, we used one such strategy, upfront voluntary choice restriction ('precommitment'), and tested if it can increase the amount of self-directed rehabilitative training in severely impaired stroke patients. In this randomized controlled study, stroke patients with working memory deficits (n = 83) were prescribed daily self-directed gamified cognitive training as an add-on to standard therapy during post-acute inpatient neurorehabilitation. Patients allocated to the precommitment inte

SUBMITTER: Studer B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8320292 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature