Are persistent delusions in schizophrenia associated with aberrant salience?

Objective: It has been suggested that positive psychotic symptoms reflect ‘aberrant salience’. Previously we provided support for this hypothesis in first-episode schizophrenia patients, demonstrating that delusional symptoms were associated with aberrant reward processing, indexed by the Salience A...

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Main Authors: Rafeef Abboud, Jonathan P. Roiser, Hind Khalifeh, Sheila Ali, Isobel Harrison, Helen T. Killaspy, Eileen M. Joyce
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-06-01
Series:Schizophrenia Research: Cognition
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215001316300026