High-Frequency Cognitive Control Training for Depression: Case Report
Yannick Vander Zwalmen, Kristof Hoorelbeke, David Demeester, Ernst H W Koster, Amaryllis Mavragani, Elizabeth Edwards, Suresh Munusamy · 2024
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Description
Yannick Vander Zwalmen and three co-authors present a single-patient case report of cognitive control training taken to an unusual extreme: fifty-five sessions over a year against depression. The training exercises the brain's control functions, and its mechanisms and time course remain murky. This participant completed ten initial sessions, then forty-five more, with questionnaires tracking cognitive and affective change throughout.
Task accuracy climbed from twenty-four percent at baseline to sixty-one percent shortly after training, settling near fifty percent at follow-up. Depression scores fell from twenty-three to three after the initial phase, and burnout symptoms dropped in parallel. Maladaptive emotion regulation wobbled variably. One case proves nothing generally, but it maps how benefits can unfold and persist at high training doses.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yannick Vander Zwalmen, Kristof Hoorelbeke, David Demeester, Ernst H W Koster, Amaryllis Mavragani, Elizabeth Edwards, Suresh Munusamy |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |