Cognitive remediation therapy for eating disorderDanner, Dingemans, & Steinglass (2015)Current opinion in psychiatry Cognitive remediation therapy (CRT) is a behavioural-based training intervention that aims to improve cognitive processes with the goal of durable improvement in functional outcomes. Cognitive remediation may be administered in different forms. All forms use the technique of specific and explicit training of strategies and use the use of various transfer techniques to functional improvements.For anorexia nervosa, a manual for CRT has been proposed to focus specifically on improving cognitive flexibility by training set shifting abilities and central coherence strength. The intervention combines simple brain exercises, with reflection on thinking styles and strategies. It translates these processes to everyday life.RCT does not directly emphasize core features of eating disorders, or emotional processes or the content of thoughts.Patients with anorexia nervosa manifest inefficient set-shifting abilities and have a superior local processing, but inefficient global processing. These cognitive inefficiencies might relate to the inflexible behaviours and thoughts observed in anorexia nervosa patients.Cognitive remediation therapy is theorized to capitalize on neuroplasticity. Through repetition of cognitive exercise changes in underlying neural pathways can occur. With improvement in cognitive exercises,...