Reward Processing in Motivational and Affective Disorders

• Main Author: Frank Ryan (auth)
• Other Authors: Nikolina Skandali (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; Computational Psychiatry; stress; incentive salience; Schizophrenia; Anhedonia; substance use disorder; Depressive Disorder; delay discounting; reward processing; Cognitive Bias Modification; decision-making; Bayesian inference
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Preferential reward processing is the hallmark of addiction, where salient cues become overvalued and trigger compulsion. In depression, rewards appear to lose their incentive properties or become devalued. In the context of schizophrenia, aberrations in neural reward signalling are thought to contr...