Cognition and emotions – two sides of one coin: The case history of a woman with psychotic experience in the “Cognitive Training” program

Jarmila Kubáňková

Abstract

People, who have experience with disease of psychotic kind, often can’t come back into so-called everyday life without complications. Even after abatement of an urgent attack, when they don’t suffer nor hallucinations neither fallacy, some bothering symptoms may appear. One of them is the “post psychotic cognitive deficiency”. This symptom usually shows as a lower performance in memory, attention and planning. This causes disadvantages to patients not only in everyday routine but also in their return to their job or studies. Luckily, it was proved that brain has a significant neuroplasticity. Thanks to it, brain abilities can improve – with appropriate training. For this concrete type of training can be used special computer programs or various exercises using paper and pencil. The cooperation with a client doesn’t end with just an improvement of his cognitive functions. The aim of this case history is to show that an improvement of thinking accuracy does not influence only cognitive functions of the patient but also a deeper understanding of emotions and attitudes can be observed.

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Keywords

training of cognitive functions, post psychotic cognitive deficiency

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