Striatal dysfunction in patients with schizophrenia and their unaffected first-degree relatives

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Li, Z
Yan, C
Lv, QY
Yi, ZH
Zhang, JY
Wang, JH
Lui, SSY
Xu, YF
Cheung, EFC
Gur, RE
Gur, RC
Chan, RCK
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2018
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Despite empirical findings showing that patients with schizophrenia and their unaffected first-degree relatives have deficits in processing monetary incentives, it is unclear whether similar deficits could be demonstrated for affective incentives. Twenty-six patients with schizophrenia and 26 age and gender matched healthy controls; 23 unaffected first-degree relatives and 23 matched healthy controls were recruited to complete a Monetary Incentive Delay (MID) task and an Affective Incentive Delay (AID) task in a 3-Tesla MRI scanner. Hypoactivation in the dorsal striatum when anticipating monetary incentives were found in patients with schizophrenia and their unaffected first-degree relatives compared with healthy controls. Furthermore, patients with schizophrenia showed hyperactivation in the ventral striatum when receiving both monetary and affective incentives. These findings suggest that disorganized striatal function, regardless of incentive types, may be present in patients with schizophrenia and before the onset of illness in their first-degree unaffected relatives.

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Schizophrenia Research

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195

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Biomedical and clinical sciences

Psychology

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