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Project Number: | I01CX000230-06A1 |
| Title: | Social Processing Systems in Veterans with Schizophrenia: Identifying Deficits in Brain Activation and Network Organization |
| Principal Investigator: | Michael F. Green |
| Location: | West Los Angeles, CA |
| Congressional District Code: | 33 |
| Research Service: | Clinical Science R&D |
| Project Period: | January 2018 - December 2021 |
| FY 2021 Funding Amount: | $164,956 |
| Total Award Amount (all years): |
$671,487 |
| Abstract: |
View full abstract and other project information on NIH RePORTER Go To NIH RePORTER Excerpt: Schizophrenia is a serious and debilitating psychiatric disorder that affects nearly 1% of the world's population. Within the Veterans Health Administration, total costs in FY 2014 for Veterans with psychotic disorders (of which schizophrenia is the most severe) was over 6 billion dollars. Deficits in cognition – both non-social and social -- are core features of schizophrenia. The deficits in social cognition refer to the processes that are involved in the perception, encoding, storage, retriev... |