At Risk for Neuropsychiatric Disorders: An Affective Neuroscience Approach to Understanding the Spectrum

• Main Author: Morten L. Kringelbach (auth)
• Other Authors: Raymond C. K. Chan (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; Neuroimaging; stress; reward processing; Neuropsychiatry; Affective Neuroscience; Pleasure; impulsivity; Anhedonia; computational neuroscience; compulsivity
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety disorders, and other mental disorders constitute about 13% of the global burden of disease surpassing both cardiovascular disease and cancer. The total cost worldwide of these diseases is estimated to exceed 100...