title: [Executive function remediation in schizophrenia: possible strategies and methods].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The paper is a selective review of the literature on strategies and methods of cognitive remediation in schizophrenic disorders. It has been focused on the remediation of executive functions and the present hypotheses about the possibility of an improvement of the neurocognitive deficit through specific interventions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  People with Schizophrenic Disorders have some degree of cognitive deficit that often precede the clinical onset not secondary to the pathology characteristics persisting even when the positive symptoms have been resolved. The possibility that the neurocognitive deficits could be modified by psychological remediation with effects not exclusively confined to the cognitive domain has been nowadays accepted and numerous studies demonstrate that these interventions are effective and durable with a positive impact on social and working abilities, symptomatology and self-esteem.
authors.affiliation: ASL L'Aquila, Dipartimento di Salute Mentale, L'Aquila, Italy.
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stratta
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rossi
mesh_terms: D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications*