The orbitofrontal cortex: reward, emotion and depression

ET Rolls, W Cheng, J Feng - Brain communications, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The orbitofrontal cortex in primates including humans is the key brain area in emotion, and
in the representation of reward value and in non-reward, that is not obtaining an expected …

The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on psychological treatments research in tomorrow's science

EA Holmes, A Ghaderi, CJ Harmer… - The Lancet …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Psychological treatments occupy an important place in evidence-based mental
health treatments. Now is an exciting time to fuel treatment research: a pressing demand for …

Reinforcement learning in patients with mood and anxiety disorders vs control individuals: A systematic review and meta-analysis

AC Pike, OJ Robinson - JAMA psychiatry, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Computational psychiatry studies have investigated how reinforcement learning
may be different in individuals with mood and anxiety disorders compared with control …

Direct and indirect pathways of basal ganglia: a critical reappraisal

P Calabresi, B Picconi, A Tozzi, V Ghiglieri… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The basal ganglia are subcortical nuclei controlling voluntary actions and have been
implicated in Parkinson's disease (PD). The prevailing model of basal ganglia function …

VTA GABA neurons at the interface of stress and reward

C Bouarab, B Thompson, AM Polter - Frontiers in neural circuits, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The ventral tegmental area (VTA) is best known for its robust dopaminergic projections to
forebrain regions and their critical role in regulating reward, motivation, cognition, and …

The orbitofrontal cortex and emotion in health and disease, including depression

ET Rolls - Neuropsychologia, 2019 - Elsevier
The orbitofrontal cortex represents the reward or affective value of primary reinforcers
including taste, touch, texture, and face expression. It learns to associate other stimuli with …

Reinforcement learning disruptions in individuals with depression and sensitivity to symptom change following cognitive behavioral therapy

VM Brown, L Zhu, A Solway, JM Wang… - JAMA …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Major depressive disorder is prevalent and impairing. Parsing
neurocomputational substrates of reinforcement learning in individuals with depression may …

Medial reward and lateral non-reward orbitofrontal cortex circuits change in opposite directions in depression

W Cheng, ET Rolls, J Qiu, W Liu, Y Tang, CC Huang… - Brain, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The first brain-wide voxel-level resting state functional connectivity neuroimaging analysis of
depression is reported, with 421 patients with major depressive disorder and 488 control …

Cognitive mechanisms of treatment in depression

JP Roiser, R Elliott, BJ Sahakian - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2012 - nature.com
Cognitive abnormalities are a core feature of depression, and biases toward negatively
toned emotional information are common, but are they a cause or a consequence of …

Advances in the computational understanding of mental illness

QJM Huys, M Browning, MP Paulus… - …, 2021 - nature.com
Computational psychiatry is a rapidly growing field attempting to translate advances in
computational neuroscience and machine learning into improved outcomes for patients …