Computational psychiatry: from synapses to sentience

K Friston - Molecular psychiatry, 2023‏ - nature.com
This review considers computational psychiatry from a particular viewpoint: namely, a
commitment to explaining psychopathology in terms of pathophysiology. It rests on the …

Functional neuroimaging in psychiatry and the case for failing better

MM Nour, Y Liu, RJ Dolan - Neuron, 2022‏ - cell.com
Psychiatric disorders encompass complex aberrations of cognition and affect and are
among the most debilitating and poorly understood of any medical condition. Current …

[HTML][HTML] The dysconnection hypothesis (2016)

K Friston, HR Brown, J Siemerkus, KE Stephan - Schizophrenia research, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Twenty years have passed since the dysconnection hypothesis was first proposed (Friston
and Frith, 1995; Weinberger, 1993). In that time, neuroscience has witnessed tremendous …

A working model of neural activity and phenomenal experience in psychosis

M Martino, P Magioncalda - Molecular psychiatry, 2024‏ - nature.com
According to classical phenomenology, phenomenal experience is composed of
perceptions (related to environmental stimuli) and imagery/ideas (unrelated to …

Evidence that the frontal pole has a significant role in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia

M Snelleksz, SL Rossell, A Gibbons… - Psychiatry …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Different regions of the cortex have been implicated in the pathophysiology of
schizophrenia. Recently published data suggested there are many more changes in gene …

All or nothing belief updating in patients with schizophrenia reduces precision and flexibility of beliefs

MR Nassar, JA Waltz, MA Albrecht, JM Gold, MJ Frank - Brain, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Schizophrenia is characterized by abnormal perceptions and beliefs, but the computational
mechanisms through which these abnormalities emerge remain unclear. One prominent …

Volatility estimates increase choice switching and relate to prefrontal activity in schizophrenia

L Deserno, R Boehme, C Mathys, T Katthagen… - Biological Psychiatry …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Background Reward-based decision making is impaired in patients with schizophrenia
(PSZ), as reflected by increased choice switching. The underlying cognitive and motivational …

Ketamine affects prediction errors about statistical regularities: a computational single-trial analysis of the mismatch negativity

LA Weber, AO Diaconescu, C Mathys… - Journal of …, 2020‏ - jneurosci.org
The auditory mismatch negativity (MMN) is significantly reduced in schizophrenia. Notably, a
similar MMN reduction can be achieved with NMDA receptor (NMDAR) antagonists. Both …

Models of dynamic belief updating in psychosis—a review across different computational approaches

T Katthagen, S Fromm, L Wieland… - Frontiers in …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
To understand the dysfunctional mechanisms underlying maladaptive reasoning of
psychosis, computational models of decision making have widely been applied over the …

An active inference perspective on the negative symptoms of schizophrenia

J Jeganathan, M Breakspear - The Lancet Psychiatry, 2021‏ - thelancet.com
Predictive coding has played a transformative role in the study of psychosis, casting
delusions and hallucinations as statistical inference in a system with abnormal precision …