Acute nicotine improves social decision-making in non-smoking but not in smoking schizophrenia patients.

Acute nicotine improves social decision-making in non-smoking but not in smoking schizophrenia patients.

Schizophrenia patients are characterized by severe social impairments. Recently, social cognition has been put forward as an important mediator in schizophrenia between the often-reported neurocognitive deficits and functional outcome and is thus an important target for treatments. Nicotine has been...

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Main Authors: Charel eQuisenaerts, Manuel eMorrens, Wouter eHulstijn, Maarten eTimmers, Peter ede Boer, Bernard eSabbe, Ellen R.A. De Bruijn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
Subjects:
Nicotine
Schizophrenia
fairness
intentionality
ultimatum game
proactive control
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2013.00197/full

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