This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. To investigate the feasbility of cognitive rehabilitation of executive functions in schizophrenia, and the impact of cognitive rehabilitation on brain functioning, we will compare structured training in executive functioning to an active control training protcol in schizophrenia patients. This training will be an adjunctive treatment to on-going vocational training and pharmacotherapy in a community mental health setting. To understand the neural basis of training-related changes in patients with schizophrenia, we will conduct functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) using the Magnetic Resonance Core of the GCRC. Scanning will occur before and after the training period using a task on which neither the experimental nor control patients have been trained. Thus changes in behavior performance will be related to changes in brain activation.
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