Research points to new therapies to lessen the severity of delusions for patients with schizophrenia

New research has found that reductions in the severity of delusions in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders recovering from an acute psychotic episode were significantly associated with reductions in volatility priors—someone's expectations about the unpredictability of their environment. The findings from the new study, published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, suggest that volatility priors are modifiable, pointing to a potential novel treatment target.

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