Developing A Cognitive Training Strategy For First-Episode Schizophrenia: Integrating Bottom-Up & Top-Down Approaches
Key Messages
Cognitive deficits are a core feature of schizophrenia and an important target for intervention. Targeting of these deficits with cognitive remediation programs, especially after a first psychotic episode (FPE), may aid patients with schizophrenia in returning to work or school.
This review described bottom-up and top-down approaches to cognitive remediation programs, and outlined the approach used to develop a cognitive remediation intervention adapted to the initial period after a FPE.
The authors designed a computerized cognitive training program for use in …