The Japanese journal of neuropsychology

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ArticleTitle	Expectations on neuropsychology from the standing point of rehabilitation
Language	J
AuthorList	Fumio Eto
Affiliation	National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities
Publication	Japanese Journal of Neuropsychology: 29 (3), 175-181, 2013
Received
Accepted
Abstract	The World Report on Disability, published in June of 2011, describes that rehabilitation has long lacked a unifying conceptual framework. Historically, the term has described a range of responses to disability, from interventions to improve body function to more comprehensive measures designed to promote inclusion. Elucidation of the neuropsychological mechanism must put the aim to relate to the treatment of people who suffered the brain failure. So, with my personal sympathy I have introduced the work of Dr. Osamu Kan and his textbook on medical psychology, which described therapy and treatment of various mental conditions. The doctor's concern about the organic higher brain dysfunction governed by therapeutic nihilism was revived, and greeted prosperity as neuropsychology in the late middle of 20th century, when rehabilitation also accomplished remarkable development in health care and medical services. Perspective on the pathogenesis of the physiological and anatomical disorders derived from the disease was expanded by the concept of rehabilitation. Although it is not requested to response for disability in social model immediately, the research and development beyond the medical model is required to be promoted. On behalf of the Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine I should be pleased if the members of the Neuropsychology Association of Japan get the interest in rehabilitation of cognitive dysfunction more from such viewpoint of beyond the medical model.
Keywords	rehabilitation, medical psychology, disability