Emotional Dysregulation and Altered Reward Processing in Self-Harm

Introduction Self-Harm (SH) is any act of self-injury carried out by somebody irrespective of motivation. SH most commonly functions to relieve negative affect (NA). Tentative evidence suggests reward processing is altered in SH. NA may trigger reward hypersensitivity and therefore SH. Whether NA i...

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Main Authors: E. Yavuz, M. Di Simplicio, R. Rodrigues
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2022-06-01
Series:European Psychiatry
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0924933822010835/type/journal_article