Our results replicate the previous work demonstrating that CET is effective at improving some aspects of social cognition in schizophrenia. We found evidence that improvement in emotion management may be associated with a change in amygdala-dlPFC connectivity. This fronto-limbic circuit may provide a mechanistic link between the biology of emotion management processes that can be enhanced in individuals with schizophrenia.
CET is cognitive enhancement therapy
Do you know if this is generally effective across the board? Or is this aimed at more severe cases?
The patients in this study were early course, however there have been papers with good results on chronically hospitalized patients as well.
In the other papers I have read, it may benefit most but not all, and some of the authors have hypothesized that in the patients who do not benefit there is some difference causing reduced plasticity compared to those who did benefit.
Im probably asking questions the article doesn’t answer but is there any information on how this effected long term outcomes or incident of relapse. Also, is this being used for autism?
I don’t know about autism. I believe the follow ups they have done are in the range of 3 months to a year or so and they continue to show benefit in at least some of the studies, but I don’t know of any that are really long term.
I think they don’t know about how long the benefits might last, but of course with cognitive remediation, there’s nothing really stopping people from doing it again for a “booster” as it isn’t harmful.
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