In addition to a combination of positive and negative symptoms, persons suffering with schizophrenia also experience cognitive symptoms such as impaired executive function, attention, and learning and memory. Cognitive remediation training was previously shown to benefit individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia in terms of cognitive performance, as well as with regard to functional outcomes.
Investigators affiliated with University of Pittsburgh and Harvard Medical School recently reported that psychosocial cognitive remediation appears to have a beneficial effect on functional brain connectivity at rest in patients who are in the early course of schizophrenia. Their findings were published in Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research.