What Is It?
Depression is a common psychological condition caused by biological, environmental, and psychosocial factors. Depression causes people to experience sadness, fatigue, difficulty sleeping, abnormal eating, and many other life-disrupting symptoms. People with depression may also experience cognitive impairment, most noticeably in attention, processing speed, memory, and executive function. This can cause people living with depression to have trouble performing in the workplace or in school, which can cause them to experience more stress. Cognitive remediation therapy using computerized cognitive training tools has been shown to be effective in remediating some cognitive impairment resulting from depression.
What Can Be Done for Depression?
Treatments for depression range from pharmacological, brain remediation, and psychotherapeutic interventions. Patients can be treated with a combination of therapies, according to what their medical professional determines is the best course of action. An obstacle with depression is that some medications work for some people while others do not. It takes a few months to a year for antidepressant medications to work, while cognitive functioning can decline as the experience of depression remains.
Cognitive remediation therapy can help depressed patients with their cognitive functioning. The goal of cognitive remediation therapy for depressed patients is to assist them in developing effective strategies when challenges arise, such as making an important decision when many options and pieces of information are available.
Cognitive Remediation for Depression
can Target the Following Cognitive Skills
Executive Function The ability to enable goal-oriented behavior, cognitive flexibility, and emotional regulation. Learn More → Language Skill to be able to translate sounds into words and generate verbal output. Learn More → Attention The ability to focus on tasks and details in order to complete and use them. Learn More → Audition The ability to hear, process, blend, segment, and use sounds to shape behavior. Learn More → Processing Speed Enables you to perform tasks quickly and accurately. Learn More → Visual-Spatial Skills Ability to process incoming visual stimuli, understand spatial relationships between objects, and visualize images and scenarios. Learn More → Visual Memory Work on the ability to process, encode, store and retrieve visual information. Learn More → Verbal Memory The ability to remember something written or spoken that was previously learned. Learn More → Spatial Memory Enables you to store and retrieve of information needed to plan a route to a desire location. Learn More →
The Research
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