Eric Granholm

..These findings support the 'resource limitations hypothesis' of schizophrenia and underscore the utility of a simultaneous paradigm when studying the relationship between attentional deficits and thought disturbance...

..While both interventions produced improvement in depression and substance use during treatment, ICBT may yield more stable clinical outcomes once treatment ceases...

..The present investigation examined the feasibility and validity of this assessment methodology in outpatients with schizophrenia...

..These findings link attention-related somatosensory deficits to dysfunction in both sensorimotor and frontal-parietal-temporal networks in schizophrenia...

..We developed a 24-session weekly group therapy intervention labeled Cognitive Behavioral Social Skills Training (CBSST), which combined cognitive-behavioral therapy with social skills and problem-solving training to improve functioning...

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..The authors compared treatment as usual with the combination of treatment as usual plus cognitive behavioral social skills training...

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..This pilot study demonstrated that low-intensity text-messaging interventions like MATS are feasible and effective interventions to improve several important outcomes, especially for higher functioning consumers with schizophrenia...

..The objective of this study was to evaluate whether negative symptoms are present in healthy populations and to determine whether they are linked to illness-related processes or normal aging...

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..The relationship between aging and practice effects on longitudinal neuropsychological assessments was investigated in middle-aged and older people with schizophrenia and healthy controls...

..Therefore, mobile devices seem feasible and acceptable in augmenting psychosocial interventions for severe mental illness, with future research in establishing efficacy, cost effectiveness, and ethical and safety protocols...

..This finding cannot be attributed to a deficit in distractibility, however, because poorer performance was found in the higher-load condition, so resource limitations cannot be ruled out...

..Consistent with the neural efficiency hypothesis, individuals who allocated more resources to processing irrelevant information performed more poorly on cognitive ability tests...

..The nature of resource-related deficits can vary across schizophrenia subgroups...

..Post hoc analyses showed that reduction of insight-linked hopelessness may have accounted for the positive effect of CBSST on functioning relative to TAU...

..This instrument is a promising tool for measuring the role of cognitive change in a broad range of patients experiencing psychosis...

..The relationship between negative symptoms, early visual information-processing deficits, and effortful processing resource allocation was investigated...

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..Although both treatments were associated with improvements in substance use and depression, ICBT + P may lead to more stable substance use reductions compared with TSF + P...

..Information provided by the instrument might be useful to guide rehabilitation efforts and measure functioning changes in response to treatment in this population...

..These findings suggest that masking impairments at SOA intervals greater than 100-200 ms may be due abnormalities in attentional allocation mechanisms...

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..Female SPD participants, who had less severe interpersonal deficit symptoms, showed a more abnormal global processing advantage. Hemispheric and processing resource mechanisms that might explain these findings are discussed...

..The pupillary light reflex test, therefore, may index central cholinergic dysfunction associated with disease progression and improvement in cholinergic function associated with pharmacologic treatment response in AD...

..Patients with schizophrenia showed the greatest reduction (74%) in hospitalization days. Thus, even brief integrated outpatient dual-diagnosis treatment can reduce inpatient psychiatric hospitalizations...

..Information processing and psychophysiological approaches may be helpful in developing culture-fair cognitive ability measures...

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..The authors discuss the implications of these processing capacity limitations for understanding both the signature of cognitive impairment within the schizophrenia spectrum and general abnormalities in working memory...

..In contrast, patients were not impaired at learning on the SRT relative to controls, suggesting that patients with schizophrenia may have dysfunction in a specific corticostriatal subcircuit...