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Cognitive remediation therapy for eating disorders
Unna N Danner1, Alexandra E Dingemans, Joanna Steinglass
1aAltrecht Eating Disorders Rintveld, Zeist bUtrecht Research Group Eating Disorders, Utrecht cCenter for Eating Disorders Ursula, Leiden, The Netherlands dDepartment of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center/New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA.
Current Opinion in Psychiatry
|September 19, 2015
Summary
Cognitive remediation therapy (CRT) shows promise for eating disorders, improving symptoms and quality of life. Further research should explore its impact on motivation and personalized application.
Area of Science:
- Clinical Psychology
- Psychiatry
- Neuroscience
Background:
- Eating disorders are associated with cognitive inefficiencies.
- Cognitive remediation therapy (CRT) has shown efficacy in schizophrenia.
- This review compares CRT for eating disorders with its application in schizophrenia.
Purpose of the Study:
- To compare literature on cognitive remediation therapy (CRT) for eating disorders with findings in schizophrenia.
- To discuss future directions for CRT in eating disorders.
Main Methods:
- Literature review comparing CRT for eating disorders and schizophrenia.
- Analysis of randomized controlled trial (RCT) findings for CRT in eating disorders.
Main Results:
- Early RCTs indicate CRT's added value for eating disorders, improving symptoms, quality of life, and cognitive flexibility.
- CRT demonstrates good acceptability and low attrition rates in eating disorder patients.
- Extensive research in schizophrenia shows robust and durable effects of CRT on global cognition.
Conclusions:
- Future research should investigate CRT's impact on motivation in eating disorders.
- Exploring the transdiagnostic use of CRT is important due to overlapping cognitive deficits.
- Developing personalized CRT methods tailored to individual cognitive processes is a key next step.
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