title: Memory and vigilance training to improve social perception in schizophrenia.
abstract: Previous research has suggested that social cue recognition in schizophrenia may be significantly associated with visual vigilance and verbal memory. Therefore, we predicted that subjects who participated in a cognitive rehabilitation program that incorporated vigilance and memory training strategies would show significantly better social cue recognition than subjects participating in vigilance training alone. Forty subjects with a DSM-III-R diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder were randomly assigned to either a vigilance-alone or a vigilance-plus-memory training condition. Results showed that subjects in the vigilance-plus-memory condition were able to identify social cues in the videotaped training materials significantly better than subjects in the vigilance-alone condition. This difference was evident in an independent measure of social cue recognition and was present at a 48 h follow-up. Implications for future development of cognitive rehabilitation for schizophrenia were discussed.
authors.affiliation: University of Chicago Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Tinley Park, IL 60477, USA.
authors.forename: P W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Corrigan
authors.forename: J N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Hirschbeck
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wolfe
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012564:Schizophrenic Language; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012938:Social Perception; D014706:Verbal Learning