Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder with onset of clinical symptoms typically
emerging during adolescence and the estimated lifetime prevalence is approximately 0.3 …

Background The brain reward circuitry innervated by dopamine is critically disturbed in
schizophrenia. This study aims to investigate the role of dopamine-related brain activity …

The mesolimbic dopaminergic reward system is responsible for the affective negative
symptomatology of schizophrenia which might be related to a low dopamine tonus within the …

The mesolimbic dopaminergic reward system is responsible for the negative affective
symptomatology of schizophrenia, which may be related to a low dopamine tonus within the …

A dysfunction of the dopaminergic reward system has been postulated in the
pathophysiology of schizophrenia. A subcortical hyperdopaminergic state in unmedicated …

Converging evidence suggests a specific role for the mesolimbic reward system and its
major dopaminergic input in coding rewards and reward-associated stimuli (Schultz et al …

Dopaminergic modulation of human reward system: a placebo controlled dopamine depletion
fMRI study Page 90 chapter 5 Dopaminergic modulation of human reward system: a placebo …

BackgroundPsychotic symptoms have been linked to salience abnormalities in the brain
reward system, perhaps caused by a dysfunction of the dopamine neurotransmission in …

Background: Negative symptoms may be associated with dysfunction of the brain reward
system in schizophrenia. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess …

Background: Positive symptoms and specifically paranoid delusions in psychosis are
characterized by a fundamental luck of trust. A number of studies show that dopaminergic …