Cognitive Behavioral Therapy For Psychosis Can Improve Brain Function In People With Schizophrenia

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Brain function improved in 22 people diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia after they completed a six-month program of cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis (CBTp). The improvement in brain function led to an improvement in symptoms. Over the next eight years, those who completed CBTp were in full or partial remission for an average of 93% of months. They had low affective symptoms for an average of 88% of months over the eight years.

These findings were reported in “Brain Connectivity Changes Occurring Following Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Psychosis Predict Long-Term Recovery,” by L. Mason, E. Peters, S.C. Williams . . .

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Brain connectivity changes occurring following cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis predict long-term recovery

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This is silly, they took paranoid schizophrenics, who tend to have much better outcomes
regardless of therapy.

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Cbt helps with positive symptoms. .

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Debunked?

http://forum.schizophrenia.com/t/cbtp-changes-the-brain-s-wiring-extraordinary-claims-ordinary-evidence/76265/1

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I wonder if the very low relapse rate was related to the CBT therapists telling patients to stay on their meds. Mine makes it a point to tell me how normal I look on my meds when really I feel like a freak and want to stop taking them.

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There is a lot of research I’ve seen that suggests you get a lot more “out” of CBT if you are on medication, than if you are not. So that could also be an explanation.

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I had a doctor tell me that if I did CBT and benefitted from it then I could come down on my medication.
I’m not sure I believed him, sounded like a ploy.