Treating problem-solving deficits on an acute care psychiatric inpatient unitA Medalia
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Montefiore Medical Center, 10467, Bronx, NY 10467, USA
Psychiatry Res 97:79-88. 2000
..Verbal problem-solving deficits are responsive to short-term remediation in an acute care setting, and treatment effects may generalize to improve ability to cope with psychiatric symptoms...
- What predicts a good response to cognitive remediation interventions?
Alice Medalia
Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY 10467, USA
Schizophr Bull 31:942-53. 2005
..While the issue of treatment intensity appears to be especially salient, there is evidence that to some extent patient and treatment variables intertwine to produce a positive response to cognitive remediation...
- Self-awareness of cognitive functioning in schizophrenia
Alice Medalia
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, klau 2, 111 East 210 Street Bronx, NY 10467, USA
Schizophr Res 71:331-8. 2004
..However, clinicians were also poor at classifying cognitive status consistent with neuropsychological test results. The implications of these findings for understanding insight in schizophrenia are discussed...
Cognitive remediation in schizophreniaAlice Medalia
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
Neuropsychol Rev 19:353-64. 2009
..Reciprocal interactions between baseline ability level, the type of instructional techniques used, and motivation provide some explanatory power for the heterogeneity in patient response to cognitive remediation...
- The remediation of problem-solving skills in schizophrenia
A Medalia
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
Schizophr Bull 27:259-67. 2001
..These results suggest that patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders are responsive to problem-solving training techniques that promote intrinsic motivation and task engagement...
- Remediation of problem-solving skills in schizophrenia: evidence of a persistent effect
Alice Medalia
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
Schizophr Res 57:165-71. 2002
..These results provide more evidence of the therapeutic benefit of problem-solving training techniques that promote intrinsic motivation and generic problem-solving strategies...
- The relationship between Usher's syndrome and psychosis with Capgras syndrome
T Waldeck
Department of Psychology, National Rehabilitation Hospital, 102 Irving Street NW, Washington, DC 20010, USA
Psychiatry 64:248-55. 2001
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- Neuropsychological sequelae of ethylene glycol intoxication: a case study
Bryan M Freilich
Department of Psychology, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10467, USA
Appl Neuropsychol 14:56-61. 2007
..These findings suggest that EG intoxication is capable of causing lasting neuropsychological sequelae despite evidence of relatively normal neuroradiologic findings...
- Family and patient resources. How to help psychiatric patients with cognitive deficits: a guide for families and friends
Nadine Revheim
Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, USA
J Psychiatr Pract 10:73-6. 2004
- The independent living scales as a measure of functional outcome for schizophrenia
Nadine Revheim
Nathan S Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York 10962, USA
Psychiatr Serv 55:1052-4. 2004
..The ILS can be used among patients with schizophrenia to measure cognition as it affects functional outcome...
- Treatment of cognitive dysfunction in psychiatric disorders
Alice Medalia
Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10467, USA
J Psychiatr Pract 10:17-25. 2004
..The evidence for efficacy is reviewed and recommendations are made for ways to begin addressing cognitive impairment in mainstream psychiatric practice...
- Verbal memory, problem-solving skills and community status in schizophrenia
Nadine Revheim
Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, 140 Old Orangeburg Road, Orangeburg, NY 10962, USA
Schizophr Res 68:149-58. 2004
..Although verbal memory performance is associated with problem-solving skills for independent living, predictive probability of community status does not improve when memory performance is taken into account...
- The impact of cognitive remediation on psychiatric symptoms of schizophrenia
Nigel Bark
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
Schizophr Res 63:229-35. 2003
..The differential impact of cognitive remediation on cognition and psychopathology may imply that psychopathology and cognitive functioning follow fairly independent treatment courses...
- Factors associated with a positive response to cognitive remediation in a community psychiatric sample
Jimmy Choi
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06516, USA
Psychiatr Serv 56:602-4. 2005
..This study underscores the importance of addressing treatment intensity in the implementation of cognitive remediation in the community and highlights the potential contribution of motivation to treatment adherence...
- Psychometric properties of the web-based work-readiness cognitive screen used as a neuropsychological assessment tool for schizophrenia
Alice Medalia
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, NY 10467, USA
Comput Methods Programs Biomed 80:93-102. 2005
..Working memory was found to be the most significant factor distinguishing diagnostic groups. These preliminary studies suggest that the WCS is a useful, time- and cost-effective cognitive screening measure for schizophrenia...
- Cognitive dysfunction and competency restoration: using cognitive remediation to help restore the unrestorable
Evan Schwalbe
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 180 Fort Washington Avenue, HP234, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 35:518-25. 2007
..We argue that cognitive remediation would serve as a helpful form of treatment for incompetent patients to improve their cognitive functioning and consequently, their likelihood of being found competent...
- Rehab rounds: Cognitive remediation in the supportive housing setting
Alice Medalia
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 111 East 210th Street, Bronx, NY 10467, USA
Psychiatr Serv 54:1219-20. 2003
