Cognitive effort-avoidance in patients with schizophrenia can reflect Amotivation: an event-related potential study.
Y X LinLi Jun ZhangLiang YingQiang ZhouPublished in: BMC psychiatry (2020)
These findings support the claim that CNV amplitude can be used as a criterion for detecting amotivation in patients with schizophrenia. Within the context of the DST, the high and low cognitive effort-avoidance of patients with schizophrenia can reflect their state of amotivation; patients with high cognitive effort-avoidance showed severe amotivation.