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"Vinogradov has focused her research on schizophrenia, which causes people to have diminished cognitive functioning, including a diminished ability to process verbal and other auditory information normally.
Vinogradov and her UCSF colleagues have worked with software that in preliminary studies helped individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia to better distinguish between imagined and real events.
In the reality-monitoring training, participants completed simple sentences, such as “The chicken crossed the road.” The final word of each sentence was either presented by the scientists, or it was left blank for subjects to make up and fill in themselves. Then, 45 minutes later, participants had to identify whether the second word in the noun pair was a word they provided or one presented by the experimenter. After weeks of training sessions, as the performance of participants improved, patterns of signaling in their brains changed to become more normal.
Mental illnesses are the result of dysfunction in interacting brain networks, and evidence shows that networks can be modified, Vinogradov said. In most cases, drugs will not accomplish the needed modification, but retraining the brain may have greater potential to do so, she said.
Would be interesting to know when this type of therapy will reach mainstream.