Objective Schizophrenia results in cognitive impairments as well as positive, negative, and
disorganized symptomatology. The present study examines the extent to which these …

Impulsivity critically relates to many psychiatric disorders. Given the multifaceted construct
that impulsivity represents, defining core aspects of impulsivity is vital for the assessment …

Reinforcement learning and decision-making (RLDM) provide a quantitative framework and
computational theories with which we can disentangle psychiatric conditions into the basic …

Importance Delay discounting is a behavioral economic index of impulsive preferences for
smaller-immediate or larger-delayed rewards that is argued to be a transdiagnostic process …

Balancing behaviors that provide a reward NOW versus behaviors that provide an
advantage LATER is critical for survival. We propose a model in which dopamine (DA) can …

Negative symptoms have long been recognized as a central feature of the phenomenology
of schizophrenia, dating back to the early descriptions by Kraepelin and Bleuler. Over the …

Until very recently addiction-research was limited by existing tools and strategies that were
inadequate for studying the inherent complexity at each of the different phenomenological …

Impulsive risk taking contributes to deleterious outcomes among clinical populations.
Indeed, pathological impulsivity and risk taking are common in patients with serious mental …

Despite the robust body of work on cognitive aspects of bipolar disorder (BD), a clear profile
of associated impairments in impulsivity, decision-making and risk-taking from studies that …

The ability to weigh the costs and benefits of various options to make an adaptive decision is
critical to an organism's survival and wellbeing. Many psychiatric diseases are characterized …