Abnormal reward prediction-error signalling in antipsychotic naive individuals with first-episode psychosis or clinical risk for psychosis.

ABSTRACT: Ongoing research suggests preliminary, though not entirely consistent, evidence of neural abnormalities in signalling prediction errors in schizophrenia. Supporting theories suggest mechanistic links between the disruption of these processes and the generation of psychotic symptoms. However, it is unknown at what stage in the pathogenesis of psychosis these impairments in prediction-error signalling develop. One major confound in prior studies is the use of medicated patients with strongly varying disease durations. Our study aims to investigate the involvement of the meso-cortico-striatal circuitry during reward prediction-error signalling in earliest stages of psychosis. We studied patients with first-episode psychosis (FEP) and help-seeking individuals at-risk for psychosis due to sub-threshold prodromal psychotic symptoms. Patients with either FEP (n?=?14), or at-risk for developing psychosis (n?=?30), and healthy volunteers (n?=?39) performed a reinforcement learning task during fMRI scanning. ANOVA revealed significant (p?

SUBMITTER: Ermakova AO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6006166 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature