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Table 1 Characteristics of the 16 induced studies

From: A meta-analysis on neural changes of cognitive training for mental disorders in executive function tasks: increase or decrease brain activation?

Author

Disorder

Patients/n

control patients/n

Healthy/n

Mean age

Gender (male/female)

Intervention

Cognition

Imaging Task

Sessions

Wykes, 2002 [25]

SCZ

3

6

6

35

18/0

CRT

Working Memory

N-back

12 weeks

Brockmeyer, 2016 [26]

anorexia nervosa

12

12

0

22.82

–

CRT

Cognitive flexibility

task switching

30 sessions over 3 week

Subramaniam, 2014 [27]

SCZ

16

14

15

40.69

12/4

CT

Working Memory

N-back

80 h(16 weeks)

Vianin, 2014 [11]

SCZ

8

8

0

27.63

6/2

CRT

Executive function

Problem Solving

14 weeks

Fonville, 2014 [28]

anorexia nervosa

9

0

9

22

–

CRT

Executive function

attention

10 sessions over 2 months

Penades, 2013 [29]

SCZ

17

18

15

36.35

12/5

CRT

Working Memory

N-back

40 sessions over 4 months

Meusel, 2013 [30]

mood disorder

35

0

15

39. 7

7/28

CR

Working Memory

N-back

10 weeks

Bor, 2011 [31]

SCZ

8

9

15

30.5

6/2

CRT

Working Memory

N-back

7 weeks

Hoekzema, 2010 [32]

ADHD

9

10

0

11.22

8/1

CT

Attention

problem solving, Go/No-Go

10 days

Rowland, 2010 [33]

SCZ

17

0

17

31.4

9/8

learning training

Relational learning

Visuospatial attention

1 session

  1. Note. SCZ, schizophrenia(F20.9); ADHD, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder(F90)