Cognitive Remediation Therapy for Anorexia

The current study reveals a wide range of side effects in patients undergoing CRT treatment, and can therefore help clinicians in choosing the most appropriate treatment for the individual patient.

The use of social media, such as Twitter, as support structures for women during weight loss is an effective tool to promote personal weight loss.

Symptoms of weight loss, fatigue, sleep disturbances, loss of appetite, and constipation are found in a substantial proportion of cancer patients. They are independent of age, cancer treatment, cancer stage, and duration of symptom onset. In fact, they occur at the same time as other well-known symptoms of cancer. The exact time or cause of their development is unknown. They may be caused by chemotherapy, disease progression, or treatment interruption or alterations in nutrition. If patients have a decrease in appetite, the nutritional status deteriorates due to lack of food intake.

The incidence of anorexia decreases linearly with age, with the lowest incidence seen in women in the 18-24 age group. The highest prevalence is among women over 55, and many of them will have had anorexia in the past year. The prevalence of anorexia among men is less than 2%. The most common reasons for a change in symptom reporting were concerns about nutrition, weight loss, or body shape. Most anorexia patients seek treatment voluntarily. The most effective prevention method is to educate people about the consequences of anorexia.

Anorexia is a disease that can affect any age, but primarily affects young girls. It typically arises from the loss of appetite and can also be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, restlessness and dehydration. It mainly affects younger girls.

Common treatments for anorexia include food restriction, behavior therapy and psychotherapy. In the past, behavioral therapy has been the most frequently used intervention in clinical treatment in the United States. For the treatment of anorexia, behavior therapies utilize group work and home training programs to treat patients who have restrictive anorexia. In some cases, group work has been more effective than individually tailored programs. The use of psychosocial interventions focuses on psychotherapy that facilitates individuals to gain increased mastery over illness. Psychotherapeutic interventions for people with anorexia can include family therapy, individual therapy, and interpersonal therapy.

Lack of food has a profound effect on the body's physiology. This may induce the genesis of anorexia. When anorexia is properly understood, the causes can be effectively treated. The following steps may be helpful in preventing the onset of anorexia in hospitalized patients.

The prevalence of anorexia at the initial assessment of a general adolescent psychiatric clinic was low, even when the symptom of anorexia occurred very close to an acute psychiatric episode: in an almost 1% of adolescents who were referred because of an acute mental illness. Nevertheless, if anorexia is present in a young adolescent it can hardly be cured with conventional psychiatric treatment. Moreover, it would be necessary to implement a systematic follow up of this group of adolescents to monitor its clinical course over time.

The use of an MRT program for treatment of PTSD is an intriguing avenue. Additional testing is needed to explore the benefits of MRT and to determine the effect of MRT in a more homogeneous sample (with similar baseline scores). In particular, further studies are needed to confirm that the improvement of the performance in the memory tests results from the clinical improvement of PTSD symptoms with cognitive-behavioral therapies and to ascertain to what extent the reduction of the post-treatment neurocognitive deficits (executive dysfunction) is due to clinical recovery and/or the improvement of PTSD.

Cognitive remediation therapies can be helpful to patients with anorexia nervosa and will likely help with long-term recovery. The most effective interventions can be obtained from research, the clinical expertise of therapists, and the patient's strengths and weaknesses.

In a small sample of people with severe depression and learning difficulties, CRT was considered to be safe and acceptable despite the lack of controlled trials. However, the lack of control groups and low rates of completion make it difficult to interpret the findings.