Incentive motivation deficits underlie schizophrenia patients' lack of motivation

09 May 2008

The lack of motivation observed in many patients with schizophrenia may be due to incentive motivation processing abnormalities, possibly underpinned by dopamine dysfunction, and not generalized cognitive impairment, UK scientists have discovered.

Many psychiatric patients are wrongly diagnosed with bipolar disorder

09 May 2008

Less than half of patients with a previous diagnosis of bipolar disorder have the condition when assessed using a comprehensive, psychiatric diagnostic interview, US study findings indicate.