Published in Schizophrenia Bulletin, a new study led by Dr. Yi Wang from the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has identified a key neural mechanism linking negative schizotypy to empathic deficits. The findings reveal that reduced neural synchronization in specific brain circuits impairs individuals’ affective empathy, shedding new light on social cognitive dysfunctions in schizophrenia spectrum disorders.Social cognitive impairment is a core hallmark of schizophren...
2026-07-02
Reward motivation refers to the extent to which a person is willing to exert effort in order to obtain rewards. In everyday life, reward motivation is not fixed at some levels. Instead, it changes flexibly depending on the effort-reward ratio in a given context. For example, when the situation is favorable, people are usually more willing to invest effort, and vice versa. This ability to flexibly adjust motivation according to changing contexts is known as reward motivation adaptation. Depres...
2026-07-01
Author: Dr Tian-xiao Yang, NACN labProspective memory (PM), the ability to remember to complete planned future tasks, is essential for school-age children to organize their daily routines effectively. For example, children need to remember to submit a parent-signed form when they see their teacher (an event-based PM task), or recall to play basketball with friends on Saturday afternoon (a time-based PM task). However, the PM ability of school-age children is still developing and error-prone, ...
2026-07-01