ReviewEuropean neuropsychopharmacology : the journal of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology2016
The role of habit in compulsivity.
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111 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Habits in Pavlovian learning: Resistance to devaluation by sensory-specific satiety following extensive exposure to palatable tastes.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
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- Neural mechanisms underlying cognitive inflexibility in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Dorsomedial striatal neuroinflammation causes excessive goal-directed action control by disrupting astrocyte function.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Assessing the validity evidence for habit measures based on time pressure.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- Nanoscale synaptic remodeling at corticostriatal circuits predicts flexible action control.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Progressive Changes Between Thalamic Nuclei and Cortical Networks Across Stimulus-Response Learning.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
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Abstract
Compulsivity has been recently characterized as a manifestation of an imbalance between the brain׳s goal-directed and habit-learning systems. Habits are perhaps the most fundamental building block of animal learning, and it is therefore unsurprising that there are multiple ways in which the development and execution of habits can be promoted/discouraged. Delineating these neurocognitive routes may be critical to understanding if and how habits contribute to the many faces of compulsivity observed across a range of psychiatric disorders. In this review, we distinguish the contribution of excessive stimulus-response habit learning from that of deficient goal-directed control over action and response inhibition, and discuss the role of stress and anxiety as likely contributors to the transition from goal-directed action to habit. To this end, behavioural, pharmacological, neurobiological and clinical evidence are synthesised and a hypothesis is formulated to capture how habits fit into a model of compulsivity as a trans-diagnostic psychiatric trait.
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