Advance in Cognitive Impairment and Its Related Mechanisms for Patients with Spinal Cord Injury (review) / 中国康复理论与实践

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.