RISK aversion in Italian forensic and non-forensic patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Goal-directed decision-making is a central component of the broader reward and motivation system, and requires the ability to dynamically integrate both positive and negative feedback from the environment in order to maximize rewards and minimize losses over time. Altered decision-making processes, in which individuals fail to consider the negative consequences of their decisions on both themselves and others, may play a role in driving antisocial behaviour.

Aim

The main study aim was to investigate possible differences in loss and risk aversion across matched patients, all with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD), but who varied according to whether they had a history of serious interpersonal violence or not, and a sample of healthy controls with no history o

SUBMITTER: Canessa N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10389697 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature