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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Avolition"”.
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Hedonics, Reward Prediction, and Reinforcement Learning in Schizophrenia: Relationships to Anhedonia and Avolition
… (a reduced experience of pleasure) and avolition (a reduction in goal-directed activity) are common features of schizophrenia that have substantial effects on functional outcome, but are poorly understood and treated. Here, we examine the potential contributions of three processes …
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Is Trait Boredom About What You Feel or How You Want to Respond to Boring Situations?
… of what to do, difficulties with amotivation/avolition, and lack of motivation to seek meaning or creativity). The SBPS also interacted with the situation in predicting participants motivation to seek relief and to be destructive. The implications of the findings and future directions are …
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Neurofunctional Characterization of the At-Risk Mental State for Psychosis
… and negative symptoms like blunting of affect, avolition, and poverty of thought. This constellation of symptoms is hypothesized to result from dopaminergic dysfunction, glutamatergic dysfunction, and dysfunctional stress-reactivity. Prior to the onset of schizophrenia there is a prodromal …
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Sustained and Transient Reward Effect on Cognitive Control in Schizophrenia: The Relevance of Negative Symptoms
… as negative symptoms, including anhedonia and/or avolition. Amotivation tends to exist in prodromal patients and persist over the illness course regardless of successful antipsychotic medications, which are known to reduce positive symptoms, including hallucination and delusions (e.g., (Horan, …
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EXPERIENTIAL NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS IN YOUNG ADULTS ENDORSING PSYCHOTIC-LIKE EXPERIENCES
While many studies of risk factors for psychosis focus on positive symptoms, such as subthreshold levels of hallucinations and delusions, fewer studies have examined negative symptoms in the early course of the schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders. This relative lack of focus on the role of …