A fewer number of studies have
compared cognitive effects of TMS and ECT.
Not exact matches
While the treatment did have some favorable
effects, in the main measure of outcome — measured with a
cognitive test called the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale -
cognitive subscale — the researchers did not observe any statistically significant benefit
compared with placebo.
The PACE trial, published in The Lancet in 2011 [2], examined the
effects of three different treatments for people with CFS,
compared with usual specialist medical care (SMC):
cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT, where a health professional helps the patient to understand and change the way they think about and respond to their symptoms), graded exercise therapy (GET, a personalised and gradually increasing exercise programme delivered by a physiotherapist), and adaptive pacing therapy (APT, where patients adapt activity levels to the amount of energy they have).
The three Penn study authors are also participating with Cognition in a NASA effort reported earlier this year to study the molecular, physiological and psychological
effects of spaceflight on the human body by
comparing identical twins, evidencing the need for a comprehensive
cognitive test battery for spaceflight.
She also emphasized that
cognitive training is a second option when
compared to physical fitness programs, which have been linked to positive
effects on cognition, brain function, and brain structure.
Qnexa was linked to a small risk of heart palpitations and increased heart rate in the clinical trials, according to the FDA review, as well as a small but increased risk of psychiatric and
cognitive side
effects,
compared to placebo.
In general, the content - centered preschool classrooms produced strong and immediate
effects on
cognitive and pre-academic outcomes
compared with the child - centered approach, but no meaningful differences lasted through the end of 2nd grade.
In fact, the
cognitive psychology term «testing
effect» was coined several decades ago to refer to the finding that taking practice tests on studied material promotes greater subsequent learning and retention on a final test as
compared to relying on more common study strategies.
find that the Tulsa state - funded «universal» pre-K program,
compared to Tulsa's Head Start programs, has about twice the immediate
effects on
cognitive test scores at kindergarten entrance.
PANSS negative
Cognitive therapy did not have a significant
effect on negative symptoms at any follow - up time: estimated improvement − 1.02 (95 % CI − 2.35 to 0.30)
compared with the treatment as usual group.
A controlled study.Arch Gen Psychiatry1998 Apr; 55:317 — 25OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science Question In patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), what are the
effects of prolonged exposure and
cognitive restructuring, alone and in combination,
compared with relaxation training?
By employing a dismantling design that
compared MBCT to
cognitive psychological education (CPE) and treatment - as - usual (TAU) control groups, this study sought to disentangle the specific
effect of mindfulness training from psychoeducation and non-specific therapeutic factors.
With a relatively larger (albeit still inadequate) body of literature, UCLA / Lovaas — based intervention and EIBI variant studies have revealed positive shifts in language, adaptive,
cognitive, and educational outcomes, but our confidence (strength of evidence) in that
effect is low because of the need for additional, confirmatory research, a lack of high - quality RCTs, and no studies that have directly
compared effects of promising manualized treatment approaches.
Monson and coauthors conducted a randomized controlled trial of the
effects of
cognitive - behavioral conjoint therapy delivered to patients with PTSD and their significant others to simultaneously treat PTSD symptoms and enhance relationship satisfaction,
compared with a wait - list condition.
Comparing within - individual changes in
cognitive ability associated with stability or change in neighborhood context provides a more direct means to assess the causal
effect of social context in observational data.
The present study examined associations between risk factors and the protective and / or promotive
effects of Early Head Start (EHS) on children's
cognitive skill performance
compared to a national sample.
Another systematic review of the effectiveness of psychotherapies for depression in adolescents as
compared to treatment as usual or no treatment showed that psychotherapies (particularly
cognitive behavioral therapy and interpersonal therapy) had superior
effects over the other treatments, but this did not last.
Similar proportions of patients were employed (56 % vs 39 %) but the patients in the
cognitive behaviour group worked more hours per week (36 vs 24).26 In another study no treatment
effect of
cognitive behaviour therapy as
compared with natural course was found on work rehabilitation although self - rated improvement was associated with
cognitive behaviour treatment.27
For the
cognitive and externalizing outcomes, the results were not consistent with causal
effects; when
comparing differentially exposed siblings none of the associations remained significant.
To review the
effects of media - based
cognitive - behavioural therapies for any young person with a behavioural disorder (diagnosed using a recognised instrument)
compared to standard care and no - treatment controls.