Publication: Disrupted latent decision processes in medication-free pediatric OCD patients
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Bulut, Gresa Carkaxhiu
Gökçe, Sebla
Özbaş, Duru
Dursun, Onur Burak
Yazgan, Yankı
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Background: Decision-making in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder has typically been investigated in the adult population. Computational approaches have recently started to get integrated into these studies. However, decision-making research in pediatric OCD populations is scarce. Methods: We investigated latent decision processes in 21 medication-free pediatric OCD patients and 23 healthy control participants. We hypothesized that OCD patients would be more cautious and less efficient in evidence accumulation than controls in a two alternative forced choice (2AFC) task. Results: Pediatric OCD patients were less efficient than controls in accumulating perceptual evidence and showed a tendency to be more cautious. In comparison to post-correct decisions, OCD patients increased decision thresholds after erroneous decisions, whereas healthy controls decreased decision thresholds. These changes were coupled with weaker evidence accumulation after errors in both groups. Limitations: The small sample size limited the power of the study. Conclusions: Our results demonstrate poorer decision-making performance in pediatric OCD patients at the level of latent processes, specifically in terms of evidence accumulation.
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Elsevier
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Neurosciences and neurology, Psychiatry
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Journal of Affective Disorders
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10.1016/j.jad.2016.09.011