Neuroeconomic Approaches to Mental Disorders
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Neuroeconomic Approaches to Mental Disorders
The pervasiveness of decision-making in every area of human endeavor highlights the importance of understanding choice mechanisms and their detailed relationship to underlying neurobiological function. This review surveys the recent and productive application of game-theoretic probes (economic games) to mental disorders. Such games typically possess concrete concepts of optimal play, thus provi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuron
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0896-6273
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.07.021