Targeted cognitive training improves auditory and verbal outcomes among treatment refractory schizophrenia patients mandated to residential care.

ABSTRACT: Computerized targeted cognitive training (TCT) of auditory processing has been shown to improve verbal learning in several clinical trials of schizophrenia outpatients. Less is known, however, about the effectiveness of this promising intervention in more chronic, treatment-refractory patients who are treated in non-academic settings. This study aimed to determine whether TCT improves auditory processing, verbal learning, and clinical symptoms in SZ patients mandated to receive care at a locked residential rehabilitation center. Secondarily, potential factors that moderate TCT's effectiveness including age, symptom severity, antipsychotic medication load, and duration of illness were examined. Schizophrenia patients were randomized to treatment as usual (TAU; n = 22) or TAU augmented with

SUBMITTER: Thomas ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7409526 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature