Taking stock of schizophrenia

An article definitely worth reading.

Also, you might want to listen to the audio interview with Prof. Sir Robin Murray (pictured) accompanying the article .


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Your Recovery Journey

An article published in the Fall 2011 edition of SZ Magazine:

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Also see:

Your Recovery Journey

Schizophrenia Society of Canada

Computerized Brain Training Can Produce Functional Changes in Schizophrenia

An article posted online on October 31st by Psychiatric News:

Successful training of the brains of people with schizophrenia in discrete attentional tasks is possible and appears to translate into improvements in quality of living, said Sophia Vinogradov, M.D., winner of APA’s Alexander Gralnick Award (pictured with past APA President and current APA American Psychiatric Foundation Treasurer Richard Harding, M.D.) At APA's Institute on Psychiatric Services in San Francisco, Vinogradov described research showing that computerized games aimed at training the brains of patients in very specific tasks can have effects on multiple interactive systems resulting in changes in global functioning. The finding marks a new direction in what has been called “cognitive remediation.” Further coverage of Vinogradov’s remarks will appear in a future issue of Psychiatric News. For further information about cognitive remediation, see "Neurocognitive ‘Training’ May Undo Schizophrenia's Brain Damage" and American Psychiatric Publishing's Essentials of Schizophrenia by Jeffrey Lieberman, M.D.

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