Cognitive thought processing

Baseline assessment should define therapeutic goals and document cognitive status, physical status, functional performance, mood, thought processes, and behavior. Both the patient and caregiver should be interviewed. 

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has also been shown to be highly effective in the treatment of GAD [91]. CBT for GAD usually consists of cognitive strategies that target the patients beliefs or thought processes that are associated with worries, and behavioral practices, which assist the patients to reduce anxiety. One recent study reported that CBT for GAD showed specific effects on patient s insomnia symptoms [92],... 

The course of schizophrenia is chronic and relentless, with periods of exacerbation marked by prominent psychotic symptoms interspersed between long periods with lesser psychotic symptoms but disabling cognitive, mood, interpersonal, and thought process deficits. Although they have been reported, spontaneous remissions are very rare. It is felt that... 

There is considerable empirical evidence to suggest that due to a variety of heuristics employed in human thought processes cognitive biases may result in "best estimates" that are not actually very good. Even if all that is needed is a "best estimate" answer the quality of that answer may be improved by an analysis that incorporates and deals with the full uncertainty. 

Simon proposed this theory (Simon 1991) to stress that an individual s rationality in his/her thought processes is always limited by the individual s cognitive limitations, by the information the individual receives from other individuals or from a group of individuals (the organization or the organization s surroundings), and by the available time to make decisions. 

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