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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-9-24
pubmed:abstractText
Approaches to cognitive remediation have differed across studies. Most of the larger studies have concentrated on group treatments designed without the benefit of recent laboratory-based studies. The current study describes a randomized trial of an intensive cognitive remediation program involving individual daily sessions of 1 hour for up to 3 months. It targets executive functioning deficits (cognitive flexibility, working memory, and planning) that are known to be problematic in people with schizophrenia. Procedural learning, as well as the principles of errorless learning, targeted reinforcement, and massed practice, was the basis of the intervention. The program was compared with an alternative therapy (intensive occupational therapy) to control for some of the effects of therapeutic contact. Some improvements in cognition followed both therapies. A differential effect in favor of cognitive remediation therapy was found for tests in the cognitive flexibility and the memory subgroups. There was a trend for those receiving atypical antipsychotic medication to benefit more from cognitive remediation for tests of cognitive flexibility. Although there were no consistent changes in symptoms or social functioning between groups, if improvement in cognitive flexibility tasks reached a threshold then there is some evidence that social functioning improved, even over the short duration of the trial. In addition, cognitive remediation differentially improved self-esteem. This study supports the view that cognitive remediation can reduce cognitive deficits and that this reduction may affect social outcome, at least in the short term.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0586-7614
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
25
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
291-307
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10416732-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:10416732-Brain Damage, Chronic, pubmed-meshheading:10416732-Cognition Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:10416732-Female, pubmed-meshheading:10416732-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10416732-London, pubmed-meshheading:10416732-Male, pubmed-meshheading:10416732-Mental Recall, pubmed-meshheading:10416732-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:10416732-Neuropsychological Tests, pubmed-meshheading:10416732-Occupational Therapy, pubmed-meshheading:10416732-Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care), pubmed-meshheading:10416732-Problem Solving, pubmed-meshheading:10416732-Remedial Teaching, pubmed-meshheading:10416732-Schizophrenia, pubmed-meshheading:10416732-Schizophrenic Psychology, pubmed-meshheading:10416732-Self Concept, pubmed-meshheading:10416732-Social Adjustment, pubmed-meshheading:10416732-Treatment Outcome
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
The effects of neurocognitive remediation on executive processing in patients with schizophrenia.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Comparative Study, Randomized Controlled Trial, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't