Social aversive conditioning in youth at clinical high risk for psychosis and with psychosis: An ERP study

Social cognition and emotion processing are compromised in schizophrenia. Disruptions in these domains may also be present during the psychosis-risk state. Aversive conditioning is an established translational research paradigm to investigate affective reactivity and learning. Using an aversive conditioning ERP paradigm with social cues, we examined whether psychosis patients and at-risk youths differentially respond to aversively conditioned faces.

Source: Schizophrenia Research - June 21, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Anna J. Watters, Petra E. Rupert, Daniel H. Wolf, Monica E. Calkins, Ruben C. Gur, Raquel E. Gur, Bruce I. Turetsky Source Type: research