Research Area:  Machine Learning
Psychiatric diagnosis and treatment have historically taken a symptom-based approach, with less attention on identifying underlying symptom-producing mechanisms. Recent efforts have illuminated the extent to which different underlying circuitry can produce phenotypically similar symptomatology (e.g., psychosis in bipolar disorder vs. schizophrenia). Computational modeling makes it possible to identify and mathematically differentiate behaviorally unobservable, specific reinforcement learning differences in patients with schizophrenia versus other disorders, likely owing to a higher reliance on prediction error–driven learning associated with basal ganglia and underreliance on explicit value representations associated with orbitofrontal cortex.
Keywords:  
Symptomatology
Bipolar disorder
Schizophrenia
Basal ganglia
Author(s) Name:  Andra Geana,Barch, Deanna M.,James M. Gold
Journal name:  Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
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Publisher name:  Elsevier
DOI:  10.1016/j.bpsc.2021.03.017
Volume Information:  Volume 7
Paper Link:   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2451902221001154