Schizophrenia
Conditions
Interventions
Training was conducted over 6 weeks and included 20 sessions of 3 different VBM tasks. Two training tasks involved letter identification
one with a mask of overlapping X'
s that spatially coincided with the target (T1) and one with a non-overlapping mask (T2). The third task (T3) presented a circle in one of four locations followed by a mask with 3 X'
s in all four locations, and required the user to determine the target circle'
s location.
Sponsors
National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Participants were people with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, and the medication was not changed from 6 months prior the baseline assessment.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Exclusion criteria were premorbid IQ lower than 70, substance abuse in the last 6 months, history of neurological illness or injury, corrected visual acuity worse than 20/30, clinically unstable .
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| cognitive function: BACS, BVMT-R, FEST (baseline, pre-training, post-training, follow up) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| psychiatric symptoms: PANSS (baseline, pre-training, post-training, follow up) | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Public ContactSatoru Ikezawa
National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry National Center Hospital
Outcome results
None listed