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SUBMITTER: Weller RE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4388189 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Weller Rosalyn Eve RE Avsar Kathy Burton KB Cox James Edward JE Reid Meredith Amanda MA White David Matthew DM Lahti Adrienne Carol AC
Psychiatry research 20131204 2
To study impaired goal-oriented behavior in schizophrenia (SZ), we used a delay discounting task, which consists of a series of choices between receiving a small immediate or larger delayed reward. Few studies of delay discounting have evaluated response consistency (R(2)), which is especially relevant in SZ because of documented inconsistency in task performance. We calculated the rate of discounting (k) and R(2) in SZ (n=35) and healthy controls (HC; n=21). Using a criterion value of R(2)>0.60 ...[more]