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Schizophrenia Research

Volume 107, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 112-113
Schizophrenia Research

Letter to the Editor
The game of chess enhances cognitive abilities in schizophrenia

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    In healthy individuals, playing chess has been associated with increased prefrontal cortex activation in areas related to EF (Atherton et al., 2003; Nichelli et al., 1994). Practicing chess for four weeks (ten sessions) has been shown to improve executive function in patients with schizophrenia (Demily et al., 2009). Although it is assumed that chess-related planning abilities are generalizable to other cognitive domains, one study showed that not be the case (Unterrainer et al., 2011), one possible explanation being that the participants in that study (experienced chess players without psychiatric disorders) were not taught how to generalize those abilities to real-life situations.

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