What is cognitive rehabilitation for people with mental illness?

Cognitive rehabilitation for people with mental illness uses targeted activities to improve attention, memory, planning, processing speed and executive functions, aiming to reduce cognitive decline and support daily functioning through graded exercises and personalized difficulty.

What does the Organize the Bookcase activity train?

Organize the Bookcase trains sustained attention, spatial relations, selective attention and hemineglect by requiring users to copy a mirror-image model and reposition objects in reverse.

How does Form words by combining letters train working memory?

Form words by combining letters trains working memory, cognitive flexibility and vocabulary by having users assemble syllables or letters into target words across increasing difficulty levels.

What skills does Organizing a timetable target?

Organizing a timetable trains time estimation and planning by requiring users to allocate tasks into schedule slots according to available time, with adjustable difficulty.

How can the Pick Up your Baggage activity be customized?

Pick Up your Baggage supports customization of stimulus similarity, exposure time, target frequency, total duration, number of targets, correction criteria and maximum errors to adapt selective attention, processing speed and working memory demands.

Are NeuronUP activities available in paper format?

Some NeuronUP worksheets, including Form words by combining letters and Organizing a timetable, are also available in paper format for offline cognitive rehabilitation and professional use.

Cognitive rehabilitation in mental health: activities for people with mental illness

People with mental illness experience impairments in cognitive function, as well as difficulties with concentration, decision-making, or planning. Therefore, at NeuronUP we offer rehabilitation to work on the cognitive decline associated with mental health disorders with activities that train sustained attention, spatial relations, working memory, reasoning and episodic memory, among others.

1. Organize the Bookcase

The first activity for people with mental illness is Organize the Bookcase.

What does it involve?

This activity consists of copying the position of the model’s objects, bearing in mind that the model to follow is shown as a mirror image, so the user will have to copy it in reverse.

For example, in the following image there may be different types of objects on the shelf, so the user will have to select and reposition them until they find the correct option.

NeuronUP activity *Organize the Bookcase.*

What does this activity train?

This NeuronUP activity trains sustained attention, spatial relations, selective attention and hemineglect.

Play by levels

Remember that you can choose the level of difficulty you want to adapt the activity to the needs and abilities of each user. The higher the level, the more difficult it will be to copy the positions of the objects.

Activity customization

General aspects

You will be able to customize: the number of exercises (total, passed, acceptable and failed), the maximum time, the inactivity warning and the timer.

Parameters

As a professional you will be able to customize the game according to each user’s age and personal abilities . In this regard, you can choose:

The size of the matrix,
the number of options.

2. Form words by combining letters

Another activity for people with mental illness is Form words by combining letters.

What does it involve?

The user will have to form words by combining different letters and syllables.

For example, in the following image the word “glass” has been formed using the 3 syllables below. In this particular worksheet the user must form two words in total.

Activity for people with mental illness Form words by combining letters

What does this activity train?

This worksheet trains working memory, flexibility and vocabulary.

Play by levels

This working memory activity has five levels of difficulty: basic, easy, medium, difficult and advanced. As the level advances, complexity will increase.

Format

This worksheet is also available on paper.

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3. Organizing a timetable

What does it involve?

In this worksheet for people with mental illness, the user must organize various tasks in a planner based on the available time.

For example, in the following worksheet, the user must place the 4 tasks from the top into the slots that appear in the schedule in a darker tone.

NeuronUP Activities - Organizing a timetable — NeuronUP activity for cognitive rehabilitation in mental health *Organizing a timetable*.

What does this activity train?

This worksheet trains time estimation and planning.

Play by levels

This time estimation activity has four levels of difficulty: basic, easy, medium and difficult. As the level advances, complexity will increase.

Format

This worksheet is also available on paper.

5. Pick Up your Baggage

What does it involve?

The user, in this activity for people with mental illness, has to select only the suitcases matching the model from a set of moving luggage.

For example, in the following image the user must wait for the correct suitcase to pass along the conveyor belt.

NeuronUP Activities - Pick Up your Baggage — NeuronUP activity Pick Up your Baggage

What does this activity train?

This activity for cognitive rehabilitation in mental health trains selective attention, sustained attention, processing speed, working memory and leisure.

Play by levels

Remember that you can choose the level of difficulty you want to adapt the activity to the needs and abilities of each user. The more difficult the level, the harder it will be to select the suitcases.

Activity customization

General aspects

You will be able to customize: the number of exercises (total, passed, acceptable and failed), the maximum time, the inactivity warning and the timer.