Jun Miyata, Akihiko Sasamoto, Takahiro Ezaki, Masanori Isobe, Takanori Kochiyama, Naoki Masuda, Yasuo Mori, Yuki Sakai, Nobukatsu Sawamoto, Shisei Tei, Shiho Ubukata, Toshihiko Aso, Toshiya Murai, Hidehiko Takahashi
AIM: While conservatism bias refers to the human need for more evidence for decision-making than rational thinking expects, the jumping to conclusions (JTC) bias refers to the need for less evidence among individuals with schizophrenia/delusion compared to healthy people. Although the hippocampus-midbrain-striatal aberrant salience system and the salience, default mode (DMN), and frontoparietal networks ("triple networks") are implicated in delusion/schizophrenia pathophysiology, the associations between conservatism/JTC and these systems/networks are unclear...
February 27, 2024: Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences