| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In patients with schizophrenia, it has been widely accepted that cognitive impairments such as processing speed, attention/vigilance, working memory, verbal learning, visual learning, executive function and social cognition are closely related to the impairment of social functioning. However, the assessment and the treatment of these cognitive impairments have not been fully established. In the present study, we focused on the impairment of working memory, and tried to develop the rehabilitation method based on the neural basis of working memory. By using our developed rehabilitation method, we found that the BACS composite score in post-rehabilitation was significantly higher than that in pre-rehabilitation, suggesting that the our developed rehabilitation method focused on working memory is effectively to improve cognitive functions in patients with schizophrenia.
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