Takeshi Sakurai , Michel Birnbaum , Y.H. Victoria Chua , Tadashi Isa , Akira Sawa
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Abstract
Digital technology has been developed to help manage psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia. Such technology is well suited to monitoring the disease in ecological situations, including the evolution and behavioral outcomes of negative symptoms and cognitive impairments that are often context-dependent, and would also allow timely assessments and interventions. Along the trajectory of schizophrenia disease course, several time windows for the potential applications are present. Approaches, including the monitoring of naturalistic behaviors by smartphone apps for momentary assessment of negative symptoms and cognitive impairments, and cognitive assessment and intervention through various remote platforms such as video games, are reviewed. Hurdles and opportunities including important considerations when applying digital technology to the prevention, evaluation, and intervention of schizophrenia are discussed.
期刊介绍:
As official journal of the Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) Schizophrenia Research is THE journal of choice for international researchers and clinicians to share their work with the global schizophrenia research community. More than 6000 institutes have online or print (or both) access to this journal - the largest specialist journal in the field, with the largest readership!
Schizophrenia Research''s time to first decision is as fast as 6 weeks and its publishing speed is as fast as 4 weeks until online publication (corrected proof/Article in Press) after acceptance and 14 weeks from acceptance until publication in a printed issue.
The journal publishes novel papers that really contribute to understanding the biology and treatment of schizophrenic disorders; Schizophrenia Research brings together biological, clinical and psychological research in order to stimulate the synthesis of findings from all disciplines involved in improving patient outcomes in schizophrenia.