BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Memento EPFL//
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:BMI Seminar // Apathy in patients with schizophrenia - an impairme
 nt of goal-directed behavior
DTSTART:20181031T121500
DTEND:20181031T131500
DTSTAMP:20260506T045029Z
UID:0230645ddb296ce584dc63c4acd9646b7510f52818a6646de5fe2bd1
CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Stefan Kaiser\, Clinical and Experimental Psychopathology\, De
 pt. Of Psychiatry\, University of Geneva\, Switzerland\nApathy is a common
  and debilitating negative symptom of schizophrenia and other neuropsychia
 tric disorders. While originally defined as an impairment of motivation\, 
 apathy has recently been defined as a quantitative reduction of goal-direc
 ted behavior. Treatment options for apathy remain very limited\, in partic
 ular for patients with schizophrenia.\nIn this talk I will present a resea
 rch program that aims to develop a model for apathy that spans the phenome
 nological\, process and neurobiological levels of description. Particular 
 attention will be paid to recent research that has identified dysfunctions
  in specific processes underlying goal-directed behavior\, including the g
 eneration of options for action\, effort-based decision-making and reinfor
 cement learning.  On the neural level the most consistent association wit
 h apathy has been found for ventral striatal hypoactivation during the ant
 icipation of rewards\, but recent studies suggest a more general impairmen
 t of the coding of reward information. Overall\, these findings are beginn
 ing to suggest potential targets for biological and psychological treatmen
 t approaches.\n 
LOCATION:SV 1717 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717
STATUS:CONFIRMED
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR