Benefits of adaptive cognitive training on cognitive abilities in women treated for primary breast cancer: findings from a 1‐year randomised control trial intervention

Chapman, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-4435, Louis, C. C., Moser, J., Grunfeld, E. A. and Derakshan, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-4435 (2023) Benefits of adaptive cognitive training on cognitive abilities in women treated for primary breast cancer: findings from a 1‐year randomised control trial intervention. Psycho-Oncology, 32 (12). pp. 1848-1857. ISSN 1099-1611 doi: 10.1002/pon.6232

Abstract/Summary

Objective: While adaptive cognitive training is beneficial for women with a breast cancer diagnosis, transfer effects of training benefits on perceived and objective measures of cognition are not substantiated. We investigated the transfer effects of online adaptive cognitive training (dual n-back training) on subjective and objective cognitive markers in a longitudinal design. Methods: Women with a primary diagnosis of breast cancer completed 12 sessions of adaptive cognitive training or active control training over 2 weeks. Objective assessments of working memory capacity (WMC), as well as performance on a response inhibition task, were taken while electrophysiological measures were recorded. Self-reported measures of cognitive and emotional health were collected pre-training, post-training, 6-month, and at 1-year follow-up times. Results: Adaptive cognitive training resulted in greater WMC on the Change Detection Task and improved cognitive efficiency on the Flanker task together with improvements in perceived cognitive ability and depression at 1-year post-training. Conclusions: Adaptive cognitive training can improve cognitive abilities with implications for long-term cognitive health in survivorship.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/113884
Identification Number/DOI	10.1002/pon.6232
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Psychology
Publisher	Wiley
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