Cognitive impairment in schizophrenia involves a broad array of nonsocial and social
cognitive domains. It is a core feature of the illness, and one with substantial implications for …

Individuals with schizophrenia exhibit impaired social cognition, which manifests as
difficulties in identifying emotions, feeing connected to others, inferring people's thoughts …

Treatments have been developed and tested to successfully reduce the symptoms and
disabilities of many mental illnesses. Unfortunately, people distressed by these illnesses …

Negative symptoms have long been conceptualized as a core aspect of schizophrenia. They
play a key role in the functional outcome of the disorder, and their management represents a …

Many psychiatric disorders are widely thought to involve problematic patterns of emotional
reactivity and emotion regulation. Unfortunately, it has proven far easier to assert the …

Background Two objectives of the NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative are to
identify (a) mechanisms that are common to multiple psychiatric disorders, and (b) …

This article reviews and synthesizes research on reward processing in schizophrenia, which
has begun to provide important insights into the cognitive and neural mechanisms …

BACKGROUND: Decision-making studies show that response selection is influenced by the
“effort cost” associated with response alternatives. These effort-cost calculations seem to be …

A range of emotional and motivation impairments have long been clinically documented in
people with schizophrenia, and there has been a resurgence of interest in understanding …

One of the most debilitating aspects of schizophrenia is an apparent interest in or ability to
exert effort for rewards. Such “negative symptoms” may prevent individuals from obtaining …