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SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN
卷 41, 期 2, 页码 503-512出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbu102
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negative symptoms; effort-based decision making; cost-benefit calculation
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- Volkswagen foundation (Hannover, Germany) through the European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences and the Humanities [85061]
- Swiss National Science Foundation [PP00P1_128574, CRSII3_141965]
- Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research in Affective Sciences [51NF40-104897]
Negative symptoms in schizophrenia have been grouped into the 2 factors of apathy and diminished expression, which might be caused by separable pathophysiological mechanisms. Recently, it has been proposed that apathy could be due to dysfunctional integration of reward and effort during decision making. We asked whether apathy in particular is associated with stronger devaluation (discounting) of monetary rewards that require physical effort. Thirty-one patients with schizophrenia and 20 healthy control participants performed a computerized effort discounting task in which they could choose to exert physical effort on a handgrip to obtain monetary rewards. This procedure yields an individual measure for the strength of effort discounting. The degree of effort discounting was strongly correlated with apathy, but not with diminished expression. Importantly, the association between apathy and effort discounting was not driven by cognitive ability, antipsychotic medication, or other clinical and demographic variables. This study provides the first evidence for a highly specific association of apathy with effort-based decision making in patients with schizophrenia. Within a translational framework, the present effort discounting task could provide a bridge between apathy as a psychopathological phenomenon and established behavioral tasks to address similar states in animals.
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