| Authors/year | Sample | Technique | Duration | Results |
| Ducan et al. /1996 [11] | Frontal patients | - | - | Goal neglect is related to frontal functions deficits. |
| Wade/1998 [12] | Health care | Goal Planning | - | Goal Planning was beneficial in the used setting. |
| Bovend’ Eerdt et al. /2009 [13] | TBI | SMART Goals/GAS | - | Description about writing SMART goals and using the GAS. |
| Levine et al. /2000 [14] | TBI (n = 30) | GAT | 4 to 6 sessions | Improvement daily life outcome measures. |
| Levine et al./2000 [14] | Meningoencephalitis (case report) | GAT | 13 sessions | Less difficulty in a cooking task after the intervention and in the 3-month follow up. |
| Von Cramon et al. /1991 [15] | Brain damage (n = 37) | PST (n = 20) | 25 sessions | Improvements on problem solving tasks. |
| Miotto et al./2010 | Frontal lobes lesions (n = 30) | Attention & PSA | 10 sessions | Improvement of the ability to manage novel real life situation tasks. |
| Harvey et al./2010 [20] | Schizophrenia (n = 22) | Verbali-zing | 1 test session | When performing multiple stimuli tasks verbalization was effective. |
| Kennedy et al./2008 [21] | TBI | MSI | 12 hours (average) | Positive immediate intervention results. |
| Couillet et al. /2010 [23] | TBI (n = 12) | Simulation of daily life tasks | 24 sessions | Simulation of daily life tasks presented an improvement on divided attention. |
| Spikman et al./2010 | Acquired Brain Injury | Multi-faceted treatment | 20 - 24 sessions | Experimental group presented an Improvement on social participation and on Treatment Goal Attainment |
| Kuhn et al./2011 [32] | Alcohol dependent (n = 1) | Deep brain stimulation of the nucleus accumbens Brain training | - | Positive effect on addiction trough a normalization of the craving associated with anterior midcingulate cortex |
| Rabipour et al./2012 | Cognitively impaired individuals | Cognitive remediation therapy | - | Enhacing performance on conflict and inhibition tasks and decreasing reports symptoms related to the disorder |
| Rupp et al./2012 | Alcohol dependent patients (n = 41) | - | - | Improvement in attention/executive functions, memory, psychological well-being and in the compulsion aspects of craving |
| Milioni et al./2013 | TBI | - | 12 sessions | All the valid strategies to be adopted after TBI must include an integration of behavioral, familiar, educational and pharmacological approaches |