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Silence is golden? Improving cognitive performance in schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2014

C Galletly ,
M Proeve ,
C Field  and
K Harvey
C Galletly
Affiliation:
University of Adelaide
M Proeve
Affiliation:
University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
C Field
Affiliation:
University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
K Harvey
Affiliation:
University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
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Type
Abstracts from ‘Brainwaves’— The Australasian Society for Psychiatric Research Annual Meeting 2006, 6–8 December, Sydney, Australia
Information
Acta Neuropsychiatrica , Volume 18 , Issue 6 , December 2006 , pp. 251
Copyright
Copyright © 2006 Blackwell Munksgaard

Cognitive impairment is a common and disabling symptom of schizophrenia and has adverse effects on functional outcome. Improvement in cognitive function has now been identified as a major target in the treatment of schizophrenia. Cognitive remediation strategies where people with schizophrenia are required to speak aloud while performing learning tasks have shown some success. The present study compared performance on tasks requiring parallel vocalization with task performance when the person did not speak aloud. Results showed selective benefits of verbal strategy on a neuropsychological task requiring multiple executive functions but not on tasks requiring simpler single-component cognitive functions.