Prediction error processing in schizophrenia

精神分裂症是一种严重和使人衰弱的精神病，通常以妄想为特征：固定的，错误的信念，使患者全神贯注并影响行为，并且对目前的药物治疗有抵抗力。该项目研究导致妄想形成和维持的信仰机制功能障碍。这将有助于临床医生设计更有效的认知行为治疗方案，通过更集中的干预来减少妄想。

Schizophrenia is a serious and debilitating psychotic illness often characterized by delusions: fixed, false beliefs that preoccupy the patient and affect behaviour, and which are resistant to current drug treatments. This project investigates dysfunctions in belief mechanisms that allow delusions to form and be maintained. This will help clinicians design more effective programs of cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis by allowing more focussed interventions to reduce delusions.