Understanding How Depression and Schizophrenia Affect Thinking

This research study uses a special brain imaging machine called an fMRI scanner to take detailed pictures of how your brain works while you think. Researchers want to better understand the thinking and memory problems that people with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or major depression sometimes experience. By comparing brain activity in people with these conditions to healthy volunteers, scientists hope to learn more about how these illnesses affect the brain.

Many people living with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or depression struggle with thinking, memory, and concentration problems that current treatments don't always fully address. This research aims to understand what's happening in the brain during these thinking difficulties so that doctors can eventually develop better treatments.