Reduced activation in ventral striatum and ventral tegmental area during probabilistic decision-making in schizophrenia

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 156, Issue 2-3, 2014, Pages 143-149

  Rausch, Franziska ^a   Mier, Daniela ^a   Eifler, Sarah ^a   Esslinger, Christine ^b   Schilling, Claudia ^a   Schirmbeck, Frederike ^c   Englisch, Susanne ^a   Meyer Lindenberg, Andreas ^a   Kirsch, Peter ^a   Zink, Mathias ^a  

^a MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MVZ Neurology   (Germany)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Metacognition; Probabilistic reasoning; Schizophrenia; Ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

CHLORPROMAZINE;

ADULT; AGE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CLAUSTRUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENDER; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INFERIOR PREFRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; THINKING; UNCERTAINTY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMETRICS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; THINKING; UNCERTAINTY; VENTRAL STRIATUM; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84901846044     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: 15732509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2014.04.020     Document Type: Article

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