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Chapter 16 - Computerized cognitive training in schizophrenia: current knowledge and future directions

from Section 4 - Assessment and treatment of cognitive impairment and related features

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2013

By
Melissa Fisher ,
Karuna Subramaniam ,
Rogerio Panizzutti  and
Sophia Vinogradov
Edited by
Philip D. Harvey
Philip D. Harvey
Affiliation:
University of Miami
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Summary

This chapter focuses on currently available computerized cognitive and social cognitive training programs, examines their salient features, and discusses their effects. It presents data on neurobiological mechanisms that appear to be key aspects of successful cognitive training. The Psychological Software Services CogRehab software, originally designed for patients with traumatic brain injury, has been used in a number of studies in schizophrenia. Cognitive enhancement therapy (CET) is a small-group approach for the treatment of social cognitive and neurocognitive deficits in schizophrenia. The neuropsychological and educational approach to remediation (NEAR) program showed variable effects on cognition, symptoms, and functioning. The Brain fitness program (BFP) shows consistent improvement on measures of verbal working memory, verbal learning, and global cognition in three double-blind studies with a computer games control condition. Impaired social cognition is a core feature of schizophrenia and an important treatment target that is associated with functional outcomes.

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social cognitiontheory of mindneurocognitionpersecutory delusionschizophreniaparanoid delusion
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Cognitive Impairment in Schizophrenia
Characteristics, Assessment and Treatment
 , pp. 284 - 315
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2013

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