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September 7, 2015, 7:50pm
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These concentration issues are very common with schizophrenia - they called cognitive symptoms and are one of the defining characteristics of schizophrenia / psychosis. They are not from the medication.
You can learn more here:
Schizophrenia changes how you think, feel, and act. Its symptoms are grouped as positive, negative, and cognitive. Not everyone will have the same symptoms, and they can come and go.
There are currently no medications that target the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia (which fall under the general classification of “Negative Symptoms” of schizophrenia - though some of them can help a bit.
The most helpful approaches so far available seem to be some supplements and therapy - including cognitive remediation therapy and also some computer-based memory training.
Here are some links to these:
There has been quite a bit of good research over the past 8 years on a dietary supplement called Sarcosine (or N-methyl Glycine). It is a natural amino acid that you have already in your body.
Sarcosine seems to be the only thing that has some good clinical research data showing that it can help people who have schizophrenia and who suffer from some negative symptoms (the cognitive/focus issues, lack of motivation, and negative mood/depression issues that are common with schizophrenia.
We have a new summary of this research here that we encourage you to read:
http://www.schizophrenia.com/glycinetreat.htm
It is available from a number of online stores at different prices. BrainVitaminz a…
Please let me know if you have tried pregnenolone? What effects positive or negative have you noticed?
If you haven’t tried it - perhaps try it and report back.
I’ve read that it can be helpful in negative symptoms that are common in schizophrenia.
The dosing in the top study was 50 mg per day.
It can be purchased here (this link is a google shopping search:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Pregnenolone&safe=off&tbm=shop
I found some clinical trials that had demonstrated effect…
Pregnenolone treatment reduces severity of negative symptoms in recent-onset schizophrenia: an 8-week, double-blind, randomized add-on two-center trial.
Ritsner MS1, Bawakny H, Kreinin A.
Neuroscienc…
CONCLUSIONS:
Pregnenolone with L-Theanine augmentation may offer a new therapeutic strategy for treatment of negative and anxiety symptoms in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. Further studies are warranted.
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A computer-based brain-training game (available for Android or Apple smartphones or tablets) could improve the daily lives of people with schizophrenia, say University of Cambridge researchers.
Tests on a small number of patients who played the game over four weeks found improvements in memory and learning.
This could help people to get back to work or studying after a diagnosis.
Prof Barbara Sahakian, from the department of psychiatry at the University of Cambridge and who researched the impact of the game, said patients who played it made significantly fewer errors in tests afterwards on their memory and brain functioning.
She said this was an indicatio…
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