ArticlePsychological medicine2023
Correlates of real-world goal-directed behavior in schizophrenia.
Article in Psychological medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Hippocampal perineuronal net degradation identifies prefrontal and striatal circuits involved in schizophrenia-like changes in marmosets.Science advances · 2025Article
- Personal Goal-Related Mental Time Travel and Its Association With Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Individuals With High Schizotypal Traits.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Article
- Assessment of Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia: From the Consensus Conference-Derived Scales to Remote Digital Phenotyping.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Rationale and Challenges for a New Instrument for Remote Measurement of Negative Symptoms.Schizophrenia bulletin open · 2024Review
- Mice lacking Ptprd exhibit deficits in goal-directed behavior and female-specific impairments in sensorimotor gating.PloS one · 2023Article
- Social affective forecasting and social anhedonia in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: a daily diary study.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2022Article
- The effect of salience of rewards on effort-based decision making in psychotic disorders.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundDeficits in goal-directed behavior (i.e. behavior conducted to achieve a specific goal or outcome) are core to schizophrenia, difficult to treat, and associated with poor functional outcomes. Factors such as negative symptoms, effort-cost decision-making, cognition, and functional skills have all been associated with goal-directed behavior in schizophrenia as indexed by clinical interviews or laboratory-based tasks. However, little work has examined whether these factors relate to the real-world pursuit of goal-directed activities in this population.
methodsThis study aimed to fill this gap by using Ecological Momentary Assessment (four survey prompts per day for 1 week) to test hypotheses about symptom, effort allocation, cognitive, and functional measures associated with planned and completed goal-directed behavior in the daily lives of 63 individuals with schizophrenia.
resultsIndividuals with schizophrenia completed more goal-directed activities than they planned [
conclusionsOur results present correlates of real-world goal-directed behavior that largely align with impaired ability to make future estimations in schizophrenia. This insight could help identify targeted treatments for the elusive motivated behavior deficits in this population.
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