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Diminishing striatal activation across adolescent development during reward anticipation in offspring of schizophrenia patients.
Schizophrenia research - 1 Jan 2016
Vink Matthijs, de Leeuw Max, Pouwels Ruby, van den Munkhof Hanna E, Kahn René S, Hillegers Manon
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Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder associated with impaired fronto-striatal functioning. Similar deficits are observed in unaffected siblings of patients, indicating that these deficits are linked to a familial risk for the disorder. Fronto-striatal deficits may arise during adolescence and precede clinical manifestation of the disorder. However, the development of the fronto-striatal network in...
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