74 the Improvement of Cognitive Function in Patients With Schizophrenia by Combining Visual and Auditory Training Mode: Based on Visual Scanning Imaging Analysis
Year: 2025
Type: conference-abstract
Abstract: Background Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder, and one of its core symptoms is cognitive impairment, which seriously affects the patient’s daily life, social function, and rehabilitation outcomes. Visual scanning imaging technology, as an emerging and objective means of assessing cognitive function, can accurately capture indicators such as eye movement trajectory and gaze time of patients during visual information processing, providing a new perspective for a deeper understanding of cognitive function. The research aims to explore whether a new training mode that integrates vision and hearing can more effectively improve the cognitive function of patients with schizophrenia, and to comprehensively and objectively evaluate the training effect using visual scanning imaging analysis technology. Methods The study recruited 50 patients with schizophrenia as the experimental group and 50 healthy volunteers matched for age, gender, etc. as the control group. Firstly, conduct a comprehensive clinical evaluation of all participants, including medical history collection, assessment of psychiatric symptoms, etc. Then, the DEM-2000 eye tracker was used to conduct baseline visual scanning imaging tests on the two groups of participants, recording their eye movement data during scene browsing and target search, including the number of fixation points, fixation time, scanning path, etc. The experimental group received 10 weeks of visual and auditory fusion training. The training content includes visual stimulation tasks and synchronized auditory guidance. The training frequency is 3 times a week, with each session lasting approximately 45 minutes. After the training, visual scanning imaging tests were conducted again on the experimental group patients and the control group to obtain visual cognitive data after training. Results The comparison of data before and after training is shown in Table 1. Before training, the experimental group had an average of 25 fixation points, while the control group had 40 fixation points. After training, the average number of fixation points in the experimental group was 35, an increase of 40% compared to before training. The standard deviation of average fixation time is 9 ms, which is 25% lower than before training. In terms of attention testing, the average correct reaction time of the experimental group before training was 800 ms, which was shortened to 600 ms after training. In memory tests, the average number of correct memories before training was 4, which increased to 7 after training. Discussion The training mode that integrates visual and auditory senses has a positive effect on improving cognitive function in patients with schizophrenia, and visual scanning imaging technology can effectively capture the manifestation of this improvement at the visual cognitive level. Funding No. Pdjh2024a557.
Source: Schizophrenia Bulletin
Authors: Xinyang Wang*, Ruihong Pan, Liping Lai, Simi Zhu
Institution: Guangdong Vocational and Technical College
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4407677083