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And after 30 weeks the memory groups did show improved memory
test performance. The coping strategy group improved everyday competence, they kind of
divided them into different types of training and they also had a psychomotor group and a
psychomotor combined group and that was the best group. The people who were trained on
psychomotor skills and on memory training were the ones that showed the best success at
the end of the training. And at their one-year follow-up there was persisting effects of
the initial changes – in other words, these people were still higher than the control
group but they had come down in their performance on the follow-up test; so they did not
retain the full benefit of their 30-week training over a years time. |