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positive symptoms of schizophrenia - delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, disorganized behavior negative symptoms of schizophrenia - disturbance of affect, blunting (severe reduction in the intensity of affect expression), flat affect, inappropriate affect (might laugh hysterically while describing someones death) nucleus accumbens - a subcortical structure that participates in reward and addiction mesolimbic pathway - subcortical part of the brain involved in cognition and emotion Overactivity of dopamine - In mesolimbic pathway over activity from ventral tegmental area to the nucleus accumbens produces positive symptoms of schizophrenia mesocortical pathway - a path through which dopaminergic projections travel to reach the neocortex Ventral tegmental area to prefrontal cortex cashing cognitive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia ventral tegmental area - a portion of the midbrain that projects dopaminergic fibers to the nucleus accumbens prefrontal cortex - part of frontal lobe responsible for thinking, planning, and language ventromedial prefrontal cortex - the lower and central area at the front of the brain, important for gut-level decision making
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