The field of psychiatry is hampered by a lack of robust, reliable and valid biomarkers that can
aid in objectively diagnosing patients and providing individualized treatment …

The ability to regulate behavior in service of long-term goals is a widely studied
psychological construct known as self-regulation. This wide interest is in part due to the …

Although there is general consensus that altered brain structure and function underpins
addictive disorders, clinicians working in addiction treatment rarely incorporate …

Explanations and accurate predictionsare the fundamental deliverables for a mechanistic or
pragmatic approach that academic psychiatric research can provide to stakeholders …

When making risky decisions, people should evaluate the consequences and the chances
of the outcome occurring. We examine the risk-preference hypothesis, which states that …

Fear conditioning and extinction is a construct integral to understanding trauma-, stress-and
anxiety-related disorders. In the laboratory, associative learning paradigms that pair …

Although progress has been made and there is both structural and functional imaging
evidence of an imbalance between brain structures involved in executive control and …

There are many ways to measure how people manage risk when they make decisions. A
standard approach is to measure risk propensity using self-report questionnaires. An …

Variability is a fundamental feature of human brain activity that is particularly pronounced
during development. However, developmental neuroimaging research has only recently …

Although it is well known that “losses loom larger than gains,” computational approaches to
aversion-related decision making (ARDM) for psychiatric disorders is an underdeveloped …