Psychology A-Level
Neural correlates of positive and negative symptoms
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Brain measures that travel with symptoms, such as low ventral striatum activity tracking negative-symptom severity and reduced activation in the superior temporal gyrus in patients who hallucinated.
Topics that use Neural correlates of positive and negative symptoms
- Schizophrenia (AQA A-Level)
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