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Losing the rose tinted glasses: neural substrates of unbiased belief updating in depression

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, August 2014
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Title
Losing the rose tinted glasses: neural substrates of unbiased belief updating in depression
Published in
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, August 2014
DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00639
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Neil Garrett, Tali Sharot, Paul Faulkner, Christoph W. Korn, Jonathan P. Roiser, Raymond J. Dolan

Abstract

Recent evidence suggests that a state of good mental health is associated with biased processing of information that supports a positively skewed view of the future. Depression, on the other hand, is associated with unbiased processing of such information. Here, we use brain imaging in conjunction with a belief update task administered to clinically depressed patients and healthy controls to characterize brain activity that supports unbiased belief updating in clinically depressed individuals. Our results reveal that unbiased belief updating in depression is mediated by strong neural coding of estimation errors in response to both good news (in left inferior frontal gyrus and bilateral superior frontal gyrus) and bad news (in right inferior parietal lobule and right inferior frontal gyrus) regarding the future. In contrast, intact mental health was linked to a relatively attenuated neural coding of bad news about the future. These findings identify a neural substrate mediating the breakdown of biased updating in major depression disorder, which may be essential for mental health.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 1%
Germany 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Unknown 163 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 35 21%
Student > Master 28 17%
Student > Bachelor 27 16%
Researcher 21 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 4%
Other 15 9%
Unknown 35 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 70 42%
Neuroscience 18 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 2%
Computer Science 3 2%
Other 18 11%
Unknown 46 28%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 59. 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 15 June 2018.
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#604,485
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#274
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#12
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