SynthesisBMC psychiatry2022
A meta-analysis on neural changes of cognitive training for mental disorders in executive function tasks: increase or decrease brain activation?
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cognitive training in neurological disorders: meta-analytic evidence for behavioral gains and neural correlates.Behavioral and brain functions : BBF · 2026Pooled it
- Can we enhance working memory? Bias and effectiveness in cognitive training studies.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Pooled it
- Willingness to use video-game or gamified application-based interventions to improve or strengthen emotional regulation, mental health, and mental well-being.Internet interventions · 2026Article
- Pretraining neural and neuropsychological measures of executive functioning are associated with response to working memory training in Veterans with PTSD.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- Altered default-mode and frontal-parietal network pattern underlie adaptiveness of emotion regulation flexibility following task-switch training.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of Cognitive Training in the Treatment of Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorder.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- A retrospective, observational study of real-world clinical data from the Cognitive Function Development Therapy program.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
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9 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundCognitive impairment is often found in patients with psychiatric disorders, and cognitive training (CT) has been shown to help these patients. To better understand the mechanisms of CT, many neuroimaging studies have investigated the neural changes associated with it. However, the results of those studies have been inconsistent, making it difficult to draw conclusions from the literature. Therefore, the objective of this meta-analysis was to identify consistent patterns in the literature of neural changes associated with CT for psychiatric disorders.
methodsWe searched for cognitive training imaging studies in PubMed, Cochrane library, Scopus, and ProQuest electronic databases. We conducted an activation likelihood estimation (ALE) for coordinate-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies, conduct behavioral analysis of brain regions identified by ALE analysis, conduct behavioral analysis of brain regions identified by ALE analysis, and then created a functional meta-analytic connectivity model (fMACM) of the resulting regions.
resultsResults showed that CT studies consistently reported increased activation in the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and decreased activation in the left precuneus and cuneus from pre- to post- CT.
conclusionCT improves cognitive function by supporting language and memory function, and reducing neuronal resources associated with basic visual processing.
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