Cognitive Remediation Journal, 2020 (vol. 9), issue 4
Original work
Fatigue Management in Patients with Sarcoidosis Using Group CBT
Hubáčková L., Žurková M., Zapletalová J.
Cognitive Remediation Journal 2020, 9(4):20-27 | DOI: 10.5507/crj.2020.004 
Sarcoidosis is a systemic granulomatous disease. At present, the issue of etiology of the disease has not yet been answered. The treatment of choice is corticosteroid therapy; new trends include biological treatment. Stress and overload often occur in the early stages, and depression and anxiety are added during the course of the disease. 50-70% of patients complain of fatigue, which affects the quality of their life even after the disappearance of other symptoms. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is recommended as the most suitable therapy for fatigue – it affects the anxiety and symptoms of depression and thus indirectly affects the...
Alcohol abuse and oncology
Nešpor Karel
Cognitive Remediation Journal 2020, 9(4):28-32 | DOI: 10.5507/crj.2020.005
Alcohol increases the risk of many oncological diseases. It also complicates the oncological treatment of patients who abuse alcohol. Abstinence from alcohol should therefore be recommended in the primary and secondary prevention of oncological diseases. In oncology, as in other clinical disciplines, a brief intervention can be used for alcohol-related problems. Brief intervention techniques are useful, simple, and take a minimum of time, which is why we discuss them in more detail here. Excessive stress and alcohol abuse present a problem not only for the patients but also for some oncologists. In the final part of the article we focus...