Effort-Based Decision-Making in Schizophrenia

Overview

Journal Curr Opin Behav Sci

Date 2018 Apr 3

PMID 29607387

Citations 29

Authors

Adam J Culbreth

Erin K Moran

Deanna M Barch

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Abstract

Motivational impairment has long been associated with schizophrenia but the underlying mechanisms are not clearly understood. Recently, a small but growing literature has suggested that aberrant effort-based decision-making may be a potential contributory mechanism for motivational impairments in psychosis. Specifically, multiple reports have consistently demonstrated that individuals with schizophrenia are less willing than healthy controls to expend effort to obtain rewards. Further, this effort-based decision-making deficit has been shown to correlate with severity of negative symptoms and level of functioning, in many but not all studies. In the current review, we summarize this literature and discuss several factors that may underlie aberrant effort-based decision-making in schizophrenia.

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