Journal
JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
Volume 26, Issue 9, Pages 1211-1217Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0269881111435252
Keywords
Ketamine; decision making; schizophrenia
Funding
- MRC
- Wellcome Trust
- MRC [G0901868] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0901868] Funding Source: researchfish
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Evidence suggests that some aspects of schizophrenia can be induced in healthy volunteers through acute administration of the non-competitive NMDA-receptor antagonist, ketamine. In probabilistic inference tasks, patients with schizophrenia have been shown to 'jump to conclusions' (JTC) when asked to make a decision. We aimed to test whether healthy participants receiving ketamine would adopt a JTC response pattern resembling that of patients. The paradigmatic task used to investigate JTC has been the 'urn' task, where participants are shown a sequence of beads drawn from one of two 'urns', each containing coloured beads in different proportions. Participants make a decision when they think they know the urn from which beads are being drawn. We compared performance on the urn task between controls receiving acute ketamine or placebo with that of patients with schizophrenia and another group of controls matched to the patient group. Patients were shown to exhibit a JTC response pattern relative to their matched controls, whereas JTC was not evident in controls receiving ketamine relative to placebo. Ketamine does not appear to promote JTC in healthy controls, suggesting that ketamine does not affect probabilistic inferences.
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