• Media type: E-Book; Thesis
  • Title: Fronto-striatal brain circuits involved in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia and affective disorders: FMRI studies of the effects of urbanicity and fearful faces on neural mechanisms of reward processing and self-control
  • Contributor: Krämer, Bernd [VerfasserIn]; Gruber, Oliver [AkademischeR BetreuerIn]; Kröner-Herwig, Birgit [Gutachter]; Waldmann, Michael [Gutachter]
  • imprint: Göttingen, 2016
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource; Illustrationen
  • Language: English
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  • Keywords: Hochschulschrift
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  • University thesis: Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2016
  • Footnote:
  • Description: This thesis is concerned with two studies which have the common pursuit to improve the investigation of pathomechanisms underlying schizophrenic and affective disorders. They were motivated by the fact, that the diagnosis of mental disorders is a complex process and despite advances still error prone. It is proposed that during the pathogenesis of mental disorders interaction of genes and environment lead to functional changes in brain regions and related brain networks. Indeed, abnormalities in reward, stress and emotion processing are described for mental disorders. It is expected that ne...
  • Access State: Open Access