Have you ever found yourself scrolling on your phone even when a deadline is approaching, reassuring yourself that “starting tomorrow is still fine”? For most people, procrastination is regarded as a maladaptive habit that can be corrected.
The study reveals the specific neural superimposed effects of combined schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive symptoms at both white matter connectivity and resting-state functional connectivity comparing to patients with either schizophrenia or obsessive-compulsive disorders as well as healthy controls.
Using a high-temporal-resolution behavioral paradigm and electroencephalography combined with the temporal response function approach, the researchers found that both visible and invisible cues induced rhythmic behavioral sampling and reset connectivity between the frontal and right occipito-parietal regions, indicating that attention samples rhythmically regardless of cue awareness.
