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Healthy co-twins of patients with affective disorders show reduced risk-related activation of the insula during a monetary gambling task.
Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN - 1 Jan 2016
Macoveanu Julian, Miskowiak Kamilla, Kessing Lars V, Vinberg Maj, Siebner Hartwig R
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BACKGROUND: Healthy first-degree relatives of patients with affective disorders are at increased risk for affective disorders and express discrete structural and functional abnormalities in the brain reward system. However, value-based decision making is not well understood in these at-risk individuals. METHODS: We investigated healthy monozygotic and dizygotic twins with or without a co-twin history of affective...
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