Computer program in the treatment for major depression and cognitive impairment in university students.
Introduction: A depressed patient presents cognitive impairment that remains in spite of depression's remission. This study intends to evaluate the impact of cognitive training in the treatment of depression, and also of the impairment that depression causes. Method: A program for cognitive training...
| Publicado en: | Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 816 - 827 |
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Elsevier Science
May 2008
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=508066700&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 508066700 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 07475632 JC4 jtl: Computers in Human Behavior issn: 07475632 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: May 2008 vid: 24 iid: 3 pid: 2410 pub: Elsevier Science artinfo: ui: 508066700 10.1016/j.chb.2007.02.013 ppf: 816 ppct: 11 formats: tig: atl: Computer program in the treatment for major depression and cognitive impairment in university students. aug: au: Alvarez, Luz María Sotres, José F. Cortés León, Silvia Ortiz Estrella, Judith Sosa, Juan José Sánchez su: Cognition Mental depression Therapeutics Mental illness Mental health of college students Psychotherapy Computer software sug: subj: Cognition Mental depression Therapeutics Mental illness Mental health of college students Psychotherapy Computer software ab: Introduction: A depressed patient presents cognitive impairment that remains in spite of depression's remission. This study intends to evaluate the impact of cognitive training in the treatment of depression, and also of the impairment that depression causes. Method: A program for cognitive training (Alcor) was designed for and applied to a group of patients (n=10) with non-medicated MDD; a group (N=10) with MDD that was treated with the program and with anti-depressants, and to another group (n=11) that was given anti-depressors only. The impact of this intervention was assessed by applying the following instruments: Beck Depression Inventory, WAIS, Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Externalized Problems Assessment Scale for Adolescents and Young Adults, and Attention Problems Assessment Scale. The program was applied to University students with MDD twice a week, until they had reached adequate levels of execution. Results: The patients of all three groups showed MDD event remission. Those who received cognitive training showed a substantial increase of intellectual performance. The cognitive treatment group increased IQ in 12.9 units and the combined group increase in 13.3 units. There was a slight decrease of 1.9 units within the anti-depressant treatment group. The changes in attention and in externalized problems showed the same trends. Copyright (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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