Learning and Choice in Mood Disorders: Searching for the Computational Parameters of Anhedonia. Robinson, O. J. & Chase, H. W. Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.), 1(1):208–233, 2017. Place: England
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Computational approaches are increasingly being used to model behavioral and neural processes in mood and anxiety disorders. Here we explore the extent to which the parameters of popular learning and decision-making models are implicated in anhedonic symptoms of major depression. We first highlight the parameters of reinforcement learning that have been implicated in anhedonia, focusing, in particular, on the role that choice variability (i.e., "temperature") may play in explaining heterogeneity across previous findings. We then turn to neuroimaging findings implicating attenuated ventral striatum response in anhedonic responses and discuss possible causes of the heterogeneity in the literature. Taken together, the reviewed findings highlight the potential of the computational approach in teasing apart the observed heterogeneity in both behavioral and functional imaging results. Nevertheless, considerable challenges remain, and we conclude with five unresolved questions that seek to address issues highlighted by the reviewed data.
@article{robinson_learning_2017,
	title = {Learning and {Choice} in {Mood} {Disorders}: {Searching} for the {Computational} {Parameters} of {Anhedonia}.},
	volume = {1},
	copyright = {All rights reserved},
	issn = {2379-6227},
	doi = {10.1162/CPSY_a_00009},
	abstract = {Computational approaches are increasingly being used to model behavioral and neural processes in mood and anxiety disorders. Here we explore the extent to  which the parameters of popular learning and decision-making models are  implicated in anhedonic symptoms of major depression. We first highlight the  parameters of reinforcement learning that have been implicated in anhedonia,  focusing, in particular, on the role that choice variability (i.e.,  "temperature") may play in explaining heterogeneity across previous findings. We  then turn to neuroimaging findings implicating attenuated ventral striatum  response in anhedonic responses and discuss possible causes of the heterogeneity  in the literature. Taken together, the reviewed findings highlight the potential  of the computational approach in teasing apart the observed heterogeneity in both  behavioral and functional imaging results. Nevertheless, considerable challenges  remain, and we conclude with five unresolved questions that seek to address  issues highlighted by the reviewed data.},
	language = {eng},
	number = {1},
	journal = {Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.)},
	author = {Robinson, Oliver J. and Chase, Henry W.},
	year = {2017},
	pmid = {29400358},
	pmcid = {PMC5796642},
	note = {Place: England},
	keywords = {anxiety, computational psychiatry, decision making, mood disorders, reinforcement learning},
	pages = {208--233},
}

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