Psychotic symptoms in young people without psychotic illness: mechanisms and meaning
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Psychotic symptoms in young people without psychotic illness: mechanisms and meaning.
Psychotic symptoms are common in the general population. There is evidence for common mechanisms underlying such symptoms in health and illness (such as the functional role of mesocorticostriatal circuitry in error-dependent learning) and differentiating factors (relating to non-psychotic features of psychotic illness and to social and emotional aspects of psychotic symptoms). Clinicians should...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.111.107789