Amphetamine-induced hyperdopaminergia in the ventral striatum has been reported and is associated with local haemodynamic hypoactivation in patients with schizophrenia. However, few studies have been specifically designed to examine the neural mechanisms for affective and social incentives in patients with schizophrenia.
Dr. Raymond Chan and his team from the Neuropsychology and Applied Cogniti...
Emotion deficits have long been considered to be the basis of negative symptoms for schizophrenia. These kinds of deficits may be manifested in diminished experiential pleasure and emotion expression in everyday life. However, most of the extant literature has focused only either experiential pleasure or emotion expression. To better understand why patients with schizophrenia show deficits in e...
Schizophrenia is a complex brain and neurodevelopmental disorders associating with a wide range of clinical, cognitive and emotional manifestations. Although the clinical of schizophrenia is mainly leaned on the presence of psychotic symptoms known as positive symptoms (such as delusion and hallucination), the ultimate functional outcome or prognosis is mainly determined by negative symptoms (s...
