4.3. Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL), Working Memory, and Executive Function
depressive, anhedonia
Our results show that participants have significant improvement in the IADL (Our findings were echoed by past research conducted by a previous study [In this trial, we demonstrated that TPS significantly reduces depressive symptom severity, improves IADL and global cognition, reduces anhedonia, and improves working memory and executive function through just two weeks’ time of application. Further, the effects are shown to be sustainable at a 3-month follow-up. Although TPS is a novel pulsed ultrasound technique, it may well represent an add-on therapy that can be applied concurrently with other existing treatment approaches in psychiatry [