The role of gamification in neurocognitive rehabilitation

Neurocognitive rehabilitation continues to face difficult challenges related to patient and institutional characteristics. This reality requires innovate solutions to increase patient motivation and involvement in the process, turning rehabilitation more meaningful and pleasurable, as well as to help therapists overcome difficulties such as the absence of material and human resources. Innovate rehabilitation techniques have the potential to create motivating, personalized, and ecologically valide tasks. In this chapter, the authors describe the reality of neurocognitive rehabilitation in acquired brain injury and present the advantages nd potential of digital information and communication technologies, especially serious games and gamification. Distinctive elements of these solutions and a reflection on the evolution of this area are presented. In order to establish evidence-based practices, it will be necessary demonstrate unequivocally the development of competences by the patients, supported by theses new solutions, and its generalization to real-life activities in future research. (80-99)info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio