Elevated decision uncertainty and reduced avoidance drives in depression, anxiety and substance use disorders during approach–avoidance conflict: a replication …

R Smith, CA Lavalley, S Taylor, JL Stewart… - Journal of Psychiatry and …, 2023 - jpn.ca
Background: Decision-making under approach–avoidance conflict (AAC; eg, sacrificing
quality of life to avoid feared outcomes) may be affected in multiple psychiatric disorders …

[HTML][HTML] Greater decision uncertainty characterizes a transdiagnostic patient sample during approach-avoidance conflict: a computational modelling approach

R Smith, N Kirlic, JL Stewart, J Touthang… - Journal of Psychiatry and …, 2021 - jpn.ca
Background Imbalances in approach-avoidance conflict (AAC) decision-making (eg,
sacrificing rewards to avoid negative outcomes) are considered central to multiple …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term stability of computational parameters during approach-avoidance conflict in a transdiagnostic psychiatric patient sample

R Smith, N Kirlic, JL Stewart, J Touthang, R Kuplicki… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Maladaptive behavior during approach-avoidance conflict (AAC) is common to multiple
psychiatric disorders. Using computational modeling, we previously reported that individuals …

The ease and sureness of a decision: evidence accumulation of conflict and uncertainty

A Mandali, K Weidacker, SG Kim, V Voon - Brain, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The likelihood of an outcome (uncertainty or sureness) and the similarity between choices
(conflict or ease of a decision) are often critical to decision-making. We often ask ourselves …

Anxiety, depression, and decision making: a computational perspective

SJ Bishop, C Gagne - Annual review of neuroscience, 2018 - annualreviews.org
In everyday life, the outcomes of our actions are rarely certain. Further, we often lack the
information needed to precisely estimate the probability and value of potential outcomes as …

Striatal reactivity during emotion and reward relates to approach–avoidance conflict behaviour and is altered in adults with anxiety or depression

TJ McDermott, H Berg, J Touthang, E Akeman… - Journal of Psychiatry and …, 2022 - jpn.ca
Background: We have previously reported activation in reward, salience and executive
control regions during functional MRI (fMRI) using an approach–avoidance conflict (AAC) …

Psychiatric symptoms influence reward‐seeking and loss‐avoidance decision‐making through common and distinct computational processes

S Suzuki, Y Yamashita… - Psychiatry and Clinical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Psychiatric symptoms are often accompanied by impairments in decision‐making to
attain rewards and avoid losses. However, due to the complex nature of mental disorders …

[HTML][HTML] Executive functions in decision making under ambiguity and risk in healthy adults: A scoping review adopting the hot and cold executive functions perspective

L Colautti, A Antonietti, P Iannello - Brain sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Decision making (DM) has a pivotal role in supporting individual autonomy and well-being. It
is considered a complex ability exploiting many cognitive functions, among which executive …

Approach-avoidance conflict in major depressive disorder: congruent neural findings in humans and nonhuman primates

M Ironside, K Amemori, CL McGrath, ML Pedersen… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Maladaptive approach-avoidance behavior has been implicated in the
pathophysiology of major depressive disorder (MDD), but the neural basis of these …

Neural systems underlying approach and avoidance in anxiety disorders

A Robin L, PP Martin - Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Approach-avoidance conflict is an important psychological concept that has been used
extensively to better understand cognition and emotion. This review focuses on neural …