our results further suggest that patients with rela-
tively intact verbal memory performance at baseline may ultimately
be shown to respond better to ATCT than might patients with relative
verbal memory impairments. This assertion makes intuitive sense,
given that the learning and memory capabilities indexed by measures
like the CVLT-II presumably engage similar neuroplastic mechanisms
to those engaged by ATCT (e.g. brain-derived neurotrophic factor signal-
ing; Gorski et al., 2003; Huang et al., 1999; Vinogradov et al., 2009).