OBJECTIVE The early application of cognitive rehabilitation may afford long-term functional benefits to patients with schizophrenia. This study examined the two-year effects of an integrated neurocognitive and social-cognitive rehabilitation program, cognitive enhancement therapy (CET), on cognitive and functional outcomes in early-course schizophrenia. METHODS Early-course outpatients (mean+...

Individuals with schizophrenia have consistently been found to exhibit cognitive deficits, which have been identified as critical mediators of psychosocial functional outcomes. Recent reviews of cognitive remediation (CRT) have concluded that these deficits respond to training. This multi-site community study examined 40 individuals with schizophrenia who underwent cognitive remediation using t...

FROM: Muller DR, Schmidt SJ, Roder V. One-year randomized controlled trial and follow-up of Integrated Neurocognitive Therapy for schizophrenia outpatients. Schizophr Bull 2015;41:604–16. WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ON THIS TOPIC Patients with schizophrenia experience broad cognitive impairments in social (eg, perspective-taking) and non-social (eg, processing speed) domains. Cognitive remediation is...

BACKGROUND an audio-visual computerized remediation program in students with developmental dyslexia. AIM to verify the efficacy of an audio-visual computerized remediation program in students with developmental dyslexia. The specific goals of this study involved the comparison of the linguistic-cognitive performance of students with developmental dyslexia with that of students considered good...

Cognitive impairment is an important aspect of schizophrenia, where cognitive remediation therapy (CRT) is a promising treatment for improving cognitive functioning. While neurobiological dysfunction in schizophrenia has been the target of much research, the neural substrate of cognitive remediation and recovery has not been thoroughly examined. The aim of the present article is to systematical...

The ability to acquire a cognitive and motor skill was investigated in 20 older and 20 younger participants using repeated testing on the Tower of Toronto (TT) puzzle, a variant of the Tower of Hanoi. Explicit memory, perceptual priming, and sustained attention were also assessed. Older subjects exhibited a defective cognitive skill performance despite the fact that cognitive skill learning suf...

This study summarizes the main results obtained by the research group from the Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla during ten years of study in the mine spill affected area of the Guadiamar river (SW Spain). This work is focussed on 1) trace element changes in soil (total and available concentrations) and plants (native and reforested), and 2) evaluation of the effectivene...