Alterations of the Brain Reward System in Antipsychotic Naïve Schizophrenia Patients

Various schizophrenic symptoms are suggested to be linked to a dysfunction of the brain reward system. Several studies have found alterations in the reward processing in patients with schizophrenia; however, most previous findings might be confounded by medication effects. Thirty-one antipsychotic-n...

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Published in:	Biological psychiatry (1969) Vol. 71; no. 10; pp. 898 - 905
Main Authors:	Nielsen, Mette Ødegaard, Rostrup, Egill, Wulff, Sanne, Bak, Nikolaj, Lublin, Henrik, Kapur, Shitij, Glenthøj, Birte
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY Elsevier Inc 15.05.2012 Elsevier
Subjects:	Adult Adult and adolescent clinical studies Basal Ganglia - physiopathology Biological and medical sciences Case-Control Studies Female Functional magnetic resonance imaging Functional Neuroimaging Gyrus Cinguli - physiopathology Humans Magnetic Resonance Imaging Male Medical sciences Motivation negative symptoms positive symptoms Prefrontal Cortex - physiopathology Psychiatric/Mental Health Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Psychoses Reward Schizophrenia Schizophrenia - physiopathology Schizophrenic Psychology ventral striatum Ventral Tegmental Area - physiopathology reward Functional magnetic resonance imaging positive symptoms schizophrenia ventral striatum negative symptoms Human Central nervous system Schizophrenia Basal ganglion Corpus striatum Encephalon Psychosis Negative symptom Reward Positive symptom
ISSN:	0006-3223, 1873-2402, 1873-2402
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