Social reward processing: A biomarker for predicting psychosis risk?

The desire to obtain social rewards (e.g. positive feedback) features prominently in our lives and relationships, and is relevant to understanding psychopathology – where behavior is often impaired. Investigating social rewards within the psychosis-spectrum offers an especially useful opportunity, given the high rates of impaired social functioning and social isolation. The goal of this study was to investigate hedonic experience associated with social rewa rd processing as a potential biomarker for psychosis risk.

Source: Schizophrenia Research - August 7, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Andrea Pelletier-Baldelli, Joseph M. Orr, Jessica A. Bernard, Vijay A. Mittal Source Type: research