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Such stuff as psychoses are made on?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2013

Armando D'Agostino  and
Silvio Scarone
Armando D'Agostino
Affiliation:
Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, I-20142 Milan, Italy. armando.dagostino@unimi.it silvio.scarone@unimi.it Department of Mental Health, San Paolo Hospital, I-20142 Milan, Italy
Silvio Scarone
Affiliation:
Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, I-20142 Milan, Italy. armando.dagostino@unimi.it silvio.scarone@unimi.it Department of Mental Health, San Paolo Hospital, I-20142 Milan, Italy
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Abstract

In her target article, Sue Llewellyn concludes that an unconstrained form of consciousness is necessary for the elaboration of meaningful associations. Unlike the author's view that dedifferentiation of memory encoding processes across wakefulness and sleep determines schizophrenia, our proposal suggests this mechanism could reflect a common neurobiological substrate for psychosis across several different diagnostic domains.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 6 , December 2013 , pp. 612 - 613
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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