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NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
Volume 55, Issue -, Pages 247-267Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.05.005
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Anhedonia; Computational psychiatry; Depression; Dopamine; Incentive salience; Learning rate; 'Liking'; Model-free; Model-based; Motivation; Prediction error; Reinforcement learning; Reward sensitivity; Stress; 'Wanting'
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan [23118001]
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Despite being considered primarily a mood disorder, major depressive disorder (MDD) is characterized by cognitive and decision making deficits. Recent research has employed computational models of reinforcement learning (RL) to address these deficits. The computational approach has the advantage in making explicit predictions about learning and behavior, specifying the process parameters of RL, differentiating between model-free and model-based RL, and the computational model-based functional magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalography. With these merits there has been an emerging field of computational psychiatry and here we review specific studies that focused on MDD. Considerable evidence suggests that MDD is associated with impaired brain signals of reward prediction error and expected value ('wanting'), decreased reward sensitivity ('liking') and/or learning (be it model-free or model-based), etc., although the causality remains unclear. These parameters may serve as valuable intermediate phenotypes of MDD, linking general clinical symptoms to underlying molecular dysfunctions. We believe future computational research at clinical, systems, and cellular/molecular/genetic levels will propel us toward a better understanding of the disease. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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