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Featured Psychology

·August 21, 2014·3 min read

Difficulty Assessing Effort Drives Motivation Deficits in Schizophrenia, Study Finds

Difficulty in assessing the amount of effort required to complete a task could be the reason people with schizophrenia often have trouble setting themselves goals, a new study reports.

This brain scan shows the location of the orbitofrontal cortex.

Featured Genetics

·July 15, 2013·2 min read

Brain Discovery Could Help Schizophrenics

Researchers discover a link between the orbitofrontal cortex and learning and behavioral deficits in mice with a gene associated with mental illness.

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