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Pramipexole Enhances Reward Learning by Preserving Value Estimates
(2022-01)
Background: Dopamine D2-like receptor agonists show promise as treatments for depression. They are
thought to act by altering how individuals learn from rewarding experiences. However, the nature of these
reward learning ...
Adaptive learning from outcome contingencies in eating-disorder risk groups
(2022-07)
Eating disorders are characterised by altered eating patterns alongside overvaluation of body weight or shape, and have relatively low rates of successful treatment and recovery. Notably, cognitive inflexibility has been ...
Characterizing Affective Variability in Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder, and the Effects of Lithium, Using a Generative Model of Affect
(2022-02)
The affective variability of Bipolar Disorder (BD) is thought to qualitatively differ from that of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), with changes in affect persisting for longer in BD. However, quantitative studies ...
Brain activity measured by functional brain imaging predicts breathlessness improvement during pulmonary rehabilitation
(2022-12)
Background Chronic breathlessness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is effectively treated with pulmonary rehabilitation. However, baseline patient characteristics predicting improvements in breathlessness ...
What is Computational Psychiatry Good For?
(2022-09)
It is rare in the field of biological psychiatry for hypotheses to be definitively refuted. Rather, topics
of investigation drift into and out of fashion, often driven by the initial excitement of technological
innovation, ...