Repeated amphetamine administration is used to examine the responsivity of cerebral dopaminergic systems. Schizophrenia spectrum personality (SSP) provides a unique opportunity to study the pathophysiology of schizophrenia because of shared neurobiology without the confounding factors of acute psychosis and psychotropic exposure. Previously we noted that on repeated amphetamine administration, dyskinesia and SSP symptoms were less likely to worsen in SSP than in healthy volunteers.
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