title: Cognitive rehabilitation of attention and memory in depression.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Cognitive deficits are an important component of depression and may remain impaired after recovery from depression.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation in depression on cognitive dysfunction in the area of attention and memory.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study was hospital based pre- and post-intervention with follow-up assessment design. Selection of the depressive patients was by purposive sampling. The sample size consists of 30 intervention depressive patients included in the study after giving written informed consent. After preassessment, all patients underwent 15 sessions as part of cognitive rehabilitation. Postassessment was done to see the outcome of cognitive rehabilitation after 3 months follow-up.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After the intervention, there was significant improvement in attention and memory area. Along with these deficits, their basic living skills were also improved.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Cognitive rehabilitation techniques are useful in remediating cognitive dysfunction in the area of attention and memory in patients with depression.
authors.affiliation: Post Doctoral Fellow (UGC), Department of Psychology, Patna University, Patna, India.
authors.forename: Richa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Priyamvada
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Rupesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ranjan
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed University), Rural Medical College, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: Suprakash
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chaudhury
keywords: Attention; cognitive rehabilitation; depression; memory