Treating Schizophrenia With Computer Games

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Nature reports on U.C.S.F. emeritus professor Michael Merzenich’s bid for F.D.A. approval for computer games that aim to succeed at treating schizophrenia “where modern medicine has largely failed.” Merzenich’s project builds on his successes with interventions targeting brain neuroplasticity, and research showing the positive results of cognitive remediation in schizophrenia through computer training. 
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Kermit Cole
Kermit Cole, MFT, founding editor of Mad in America, works in Santa Fe, New Mexico as a couples and family therapist. Inspired by Open Dialogue, he works as part of a team and consults with couples and families that have members identified as patients. His work in residential treatment — largely with severely traumatized and/or "psychotic" clients — led to an appreciation of the power and beauty of systemic philosophy and practice, as the alternative to the prevailing focus on individual pathology. A former film-maker, he has undergraduate and master's degrees in psychology from Harvard University, as well as an MFT degree from the Council for Relationships in Philadelphia. He is a doctoral candidate with the Taos Institute and the Free University of Brussels. You can reach him at [email protected].

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