Advance in Cognitive Impairment and Its Related Mechanisms for Patients with Spinal Cord Injury (review)

VernacularTitle:脊髓损伤导致认知障碍及其相关机制的研究进展
Author: Zeruxin LUO ; Botao TAN ; Yamin WU
Keywords: spinal cord injury; cognitive impairment; traumatic brain injury; review
From: Chinese Journal of Rehabilitation Theory and Practice 2017;23(4):390-393
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Dysfunction after spinal cord injury mainly focused on the loss of motor function and sensory function and its complications instead of cognitive impairment. In this paper, the relevant reports of cognitive impairment in patients with spinal cord injury were collected. The influencing factors mainly contained emotion, traumatic brain injury, alcohol intake, drug abuse and educational level, etc. The possible mechanisms included traumatic brain injury, structure change of brain, brain damage and functional change, and inappropriate treatment, etc.