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Decision-making under explicit risk is impaired in multiple sclerosis: relationships with ventricular width and disease disability

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Neurology, April 2015
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Title
Decision-making under explicit risk is impaired in multiple sclerosis: relationships with ventricular width and disease disability
Published in
BMC Neurology, April 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12883-015-0318-0
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Ashley D Radomski, Christopher Power, Scot E Purdon, Derek J Emery, Gregg Blevins, Kenneth G Warren, Esther Fujiwara

Abstract

Decision-making is an essential function of everyday life. Decision making under explicit risk requires developing advantageous decision strategies based on known outcomes (e.g., probabilities of winning or losing a bet). Decision making and its neural substrates have been rarely studied in MS. We expected performance in decision making under risk to be lowered in MS patients, and negatively correlated with disease-related disability, cognition, and ventricular width. Three groups were included: 32 MS patients and 20 healthy controls were examined with conventional neuropsychological tests and the Game-of-Dice Task (GDT) assessing decision-making under explicit risk. Linear 2-D ventricular width was assessed on MS patients' clinical MRIs and compared to a third group, 20 non-MS neurological control patients. Compared to healthy controls, MS patients showed impaired GDT and neuropsychological performance, depending on the MS-subtype (relapsing-remitting (RR), n = 22; secondary progressive, n = 10) and disability severity among RR-MS patients. In MS patients, GDT performance correlated with processing speed, intercaudate ratio, and third ventricle ratio (p's < 0.05). Mediation analysis showed that the link between GDT performance and processing speed was fully explained by ventricular size. Decision-making under explicit risk was reduced in MS patients, but only those with more pronounced disability. Independent of processing speed, decision-making under explicit risk correlates inversely with central atrophy in MS.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Unknown 69 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 23%
Student > Master 10 14%
Researcher 8 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 11%
Student > Bachelor 6 8%
Other 13 18%
Unknown 10 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 17 24%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 18%
Neuroscience 10 14%
Social Sciences 4 6%
Computer Science 3 4%
Other 8 11%
Unknown 16 23%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 July 2015.
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#3,118,499
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#11
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