ArticleSchizophrenia bulletin2024
Thinking About the Future of Cognitive Remediation Therapy Revisited: What Is Left to Solve Before Patients Have Access?
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Digital Therapeutics for People with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: A Systematic Literature Review of Their Effect on Symptoms and Functioning.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026Pooled it
- Cognitive remediation in people with bipolar disorder and cognitive dysfunction: a systematic review.Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN · 2026Pooled it
- Treatment discontinuation of remotely delivered cognitive remediation for schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
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- Co-development of a protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial of CIRCuiTS™ cognitive remediation therapy for people with multiple sclerosis.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2026Review
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- Assessing directional connections between symptoms, cognition, insight, and real-life functioning in schizophrenia: a partial ancestor graphs analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- A qualitative exploration of mental health workers trained and supported to deliver a cognitive remediation program, Employ Your Mind (EYM).Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Primary and secondary caregiver burden of cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia: a qualitative study based on caregiver interviews.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Article
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Abstract
In our previous paper on the Future of Cognitive Remediation published more than 10 years ago, we envisaged an imminent and wide implementation of cognitive remediation therapies into mental health services. This optimism was misplaced. Despite evidence of the benefits, costs, and savings of this intervention, access is still sparse. The therapy has made its way into some treatment guidance, but these documents weight the same evidence very differently, causing confusion, and do not consider barriers to implementation. This paper revisits our previous agenda and describes how some challenges were overcome but some remain. The scientific community, with its commitment to Open Science, has produced promising sets of empirical data to explore the mechanisms of treatment action. This same community needs to understand the specific and nonspecific effects of cognitive remediation if we are to provide a formulation-based approach that can be widely implemented. In the last 10 years we have learned that cognitive remediation is not "brain training" but is a holistic therapy that involves an active therapist providing motivation support, and who helps to mitigate the impact of cognitive difficulties through metacognition to develop awareness of cognitive approaches to problems. We conclude that, of course, more research is needed but, in addition and perhaps more importantly at this stage, we need more public and health professionals' understanding of the benefits of this therapy to inform and include this approach as part of treatment regimens.
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