Essays about: "aberrant salience attribution"

Found 1 essay containing the words aberrant salience attribution.

  1. 1. The neural basis of aberrant salience attribution in unmedicated patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Sektionen för lärande och miljö

    Author : Carl Delfin; [2014]
    Keywords : schizophrenia spectrum; aberrant salience attribution; fMRI; BOLD; ventral striatum; associations; pavlovian conditioning;

    Abstract : Due to abnormal functioning of the brain’s reward and prediction system patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders are thought to assign salience to non-relevant objects and events and to form context-inappropriate associations. The brain’s ventral striatum is critical in the formation of associations, and aberrant associations are believed to create delusional content during psychosis. READ MORE