
Notes From Prague: Treating Schizophrenia Beyond Antipsychotic Drugs
Key Takeaways
- High-density congress programming required triage among simultaneous symposia and early start times.
- Metacognitive training was characterized as a set of discrete modules that can be combined to address heterogeneous symptom-linked cognitive distortions.
With several good presentations going on today at EPA 2012, the hardest part was deciding which to attend. The sessions started at 8 this morning, and I decided to go to the Treating Schizophrenia Beyond Antipsychotic Drugs: Cognitive and Metacognitive Interventions.
NOTES FROM PRAGUE: A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE
March 4, 2012
There are several good presentations going on today at
In his discussion of metacognitive training for schizophrenia, Stephan Moritz of the Metacognition Study Group from Hamburg, Germany, provided a brief overview of the approach he and his colleagues are using in their study. The interventions are made up of modules that target specific domains that are problematic in schizophrenia, such as attributional style, memory, and theory of mind. Their strategy is free to download at







