Journal of International Psychiatry

Schizophrenia is a long-term consumptive mental disease that affects tens of millions of people worldwide, causing a heavy social burden. Schizophrenic patients not only have positive and negative symptoms, but also generally exist various degrees of cognitive deficits, which is the important cause of social function impairment , such as occupation, interpersonal relationship, economy and so on.Cognitive function is an important factor to predict whether the schizophrenia patients can return back to society or not. Therefore, it is an important goal to improve cognitive function in the treatment of schizophrenia. As a result, a variety of cognitive treatments have emerged, including drug therapy and non-drug therapy. However, the effects of cognitive treatments are still controversial, so this article reviews cognitive deficit, the relationship between cognitive deficit and social function, and cognitive therapy in schizophrenic patients.

schizophrenia；cognitive deficient；social function；cognitive therapy