Effects of Occupational Therapy Interventions and Brain Stimulation on Visuospatial‎ Memory in Adult Male Patients with Schizophrenia

摘要: PurposeSchizophrenia is one of the most debilitating psychological disorders and one of the most common psychoses. The level of performance of these patients can be affected by cognitive disorders and especially visual-spatial memory. Cognitive rehabilitation can help improve cognitive functions. It also seems that electrical brain stimulation via transcranial direct current stimulation (TDCS) can increase the working memory of these patients. In this study, we intend to investigate the effect of occupational therapy with TDCS on visual-spatial memory function and visual learning in this group of patients.MethodsThe present study is an interventional study in the form of a clinical trial with a double blind, pretest-posttest design. 24 people were selected by convenient non probability sampling method and randomly assigned into the control/intervention group. The intervention was conducted in 12 sessions of 20 …