The Centre for Study at Villa Miari ...
aims to be a support for those who think that each rehabilitative intervention is to be recognised as a theory from which exercises are derived, through different steps, and to which the data gathered from the exercises themselves are connected.

A Theory ...
represents a model, that is a suitably structured construction of the object that we intend to study, on the basis of modalities and means coherently chosen for the study.

The Centre for Study ...
aims to adopt a cognitive theory.
It indicates as assumption of study that the quality of the recovery, both spontaneous and guided by the rehabilitator, strictly depends on the type of activated cognitive processes and their activating modality. It is fundamental that each theory is appointed by its belonging to a certain field of study, as this is, in its perspective, the filter through which the required choices of any rehabilitative act can be made.
Each rehabilitative act, indeed, imposes a series of choices.

The meaning to be given to the movement, the interpretation of the disease, the identification of the instruments of the exercise require precise choices.

The adoption of a cognitive theory implies a cognitive approach of the rehabilitative choices.
All these choices have to be made considering the processes underlying knowledge, that is the capacity of the nervous system to interact with the world through certain aims.

The prefix neuro– before –cognitive ...
represents a further specification. It is not, indeed, a rehabilitation of disorders of the cognitive process, but a rehabilitative proposal that looks for recovery through the programmed activation of cognitive processes which, acting on the structure of the nervous system, modify its organization.

Neurocognitive ...
means that the object of study, at a higher level of complexity, is the interpretation of the relationship between cognitive elements and structural elements, between the experience, also represented by the therapeutic exercise, and the biological changes within the central nervous system, between the mind and the body.

A theory must not be intended as given once and for all …
but it represents a system of knowledge, subject to a continuous re-organisation through a research in constant progress.
This web site tries to meet the need for a continuous up-dating of knowledge and for a continuous interchange among the lovers of the discipline, under the actions of both the exercises and new theoretical acquisition coming from base and clinical discipline.

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Centre for Study of Neurocognitive Rehabilitation - Villa Miari, 36014 Santorso (VI) - Italy
www.riabilitazioneneurocognitiva.it