Social reward processing: A biomarker for predicting psychosis risk?

ABSTRACT: The desire to obtain social rewards (e.g. positive feedback) features prominently in our lives and relationships, and is relevant to understanding psychopathology - where behavior is often impaired. Investigating social rewards within the psychosis-spectrum offers an especially useful opportunity, given the high rates of impaired social functioning and social isolation. The goal of this study was to investigate hedonic experience associated with social reward processing as a potential biomarker for psychosis risk. This study used a task-based functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) paradigm in adolescents at clinical high-risk for the development of psychosis (CHR, n = 19) and healthy unaffected peers (healthy controls - HC, n = 20). Regional activation and connectivity of the ventrom

SUBMITTER: Pelletier-Baldelli A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6367066 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature