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ReviewFrontiers in psychiatry2020

Inflammation and Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia: Implications for Reward Processing and Motivational Deficits.

David R Goldsmith, Mark Hyman Rapaport

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Review in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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63citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

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63 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 107 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

David R GoldsmithDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Mark Hyman RapaportDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Emory University · US

Funding

Impact of Inflammation on Reward Circuits, Motivational Deficits and Negative Symptoms in SchizophreniaK23MH114037 · NIMH · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI GOLDSMITH, DAVID RYAN · 2018 to 2022
$957k
NIMH NIH HHS K23 MH114037NIMH NIH HHS L30 MH114414
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Negative symptoms of schizophrenia are debilitating and chronic in nature, are difficult to treat, and contribute to poor functional outcomes. Motivational deficits are a core negative symptom and may involve alterations in reward processing, which involve subcortical regions such as the basal ganglia. More specifically, dopamine-rich regions like the ventral striatum, have been implicated in these reward-processing deficits. Inflammation is one mechanism that may underlie negative symptoms, and specifically motivational deficits, via the effects of inflammatory cytokines on the basal ganglia. Previous work has demonstrated that inflammatory stimuli decrease neural activity in the ventral striatum and decrease connectivity in reward-relevant neural circuitry. The immune system has been shown to be involved in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia, and inflammatory cytokines have been shown to be altered in patients with the disorder. This paper reviews the literature on associations between inflammatory markers and negative symptoms of schizophrenia as well as the role of anti-inflammatory drugs to target negative symptoms. We also review the literature on the role of inflammation and reward processing deficits in both healthy controls and individuals with depression. We use the literature on inflammation and depression as a basis for a model that explores potential mechanisms responsible for inflammation modulating certain aspects of negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia. This approach may offer novel targets to treat these symptoms of the disorder that are significant barriers to functional recovery and do not respond well to available antipsychotic medications.

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cytokinesinflammationmotivationnegative symptomsrewardschizophrenia

Identifiers

PMID32153436
PMCPMC7044128
OpenAlexW3007880151

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