Cognitive training for divergent thinking in schizophrenia: A pilot study |
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| Authors: | Takahiro Nemoto Ryoko Yamazawa Hiroyuki Kobayashi Nobuharu Fujita Bun Chino Chiyo Fujii Haruo Kashima Yuri Rassovsky Michael F. Green Masafumi Mizuno |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan;2. Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, California, USA;3. VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, California, USA;4. Department of Social Work, Saitama Prefectural University, Saitama, Japan;5. Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, California, USA;6. Department of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Toho University, Tokyo, Japan |
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Individuals with schizophrenia demonstrate deficits in divergent thinking. This ability is indispensable for generating creative solutions and navigating the complexities of social interactions. In a pilot study, seventeen stable schizophrenia outpatients were randomly assigned to a training program for divergent thinking or a control program on convergent thinking. After eight weeks of training, participants in the divergent thinking program had significantly greater improvements on measures of idea fluency, negative symptoms, and interpersonal relations than did participants receiving the control program. These preliminary results suggest that interventions for divergent thinking in schizophrenia may lead to improvements in patients' social functioning. |
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| Keywords: | ANOVA, analysis of variance GAF, Global Assessment of Functioning ICD-10, International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision PANSS, Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale SFS, Social Functioning Scale WAIS-R, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale&mdash Revised |
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