Cognitive Remediation with Functional Skills Training Effective in Schizophrenia

Researchers from Canada and the U.S. report, in findings published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, that cognitive remediation robustly improved neurocognition after 12 weeks in 107 people with schizophrenia diagnoses. Social competence improved with functional skills training. Both approaches together, however, were more likely to result in  functional competence that generalized to real-world behavior.

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