Abstract Concepts of cognitive control (CC) and executive function (EF) are defined in terms
of their relationships with goal-directed behavior versus habits and controlled versus …

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a severe and disabling psychiatric disorder that presents
several challenges for neuroscience. Recent advances in its genetic and developmental …

As the proverbial creatures of habit, people tend to repeat the same behaviors in recurring
contexts. This review characterizes habits in terms of their cognitive, motivational, and …

Classically, the basal ganglia have been considered to have a role in producing habitual
and goal-directed behaviours. In this article, we review recent evidence that expands this …

Prominent theories suggest that compulsive behaviors, characteristic of obsessive-
compulsive disorder and addiction, are driven by shared deficits in goal-directed control …

Objective: Biomarkers are defined as anatomical, biochemical or physiological traits that are
specific to certain disorders or syndromes. The objective of this paper is to summarise the …

Habits form a crucial component of behavior. In recent years, key computational models
have conceptualized habits as arising from model-free reinforcement learning mechanisms …

Background A recent hypothesis has suggested that core deficits in goal-directed behavior
in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are caused by impaired frontostriatal function. We …

Habits are repetitive behaviors that become ingrained with practice, routine, and repetition.
The more we repeat an action, the stronger our habits become. Behavioral and clinical …

Evidence indicates the existence of a superordinate factor of general psychopathology,
which has been termed p. Among the issues raised by this discovery is whether this factor …