ReviewDialogues in clinical neuroscience2016
Habit formation.
Review in Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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62 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Effects of proactive control and reward incentives on the inhibition of sequentially linked motor actions.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Ovarian hormonal state at exercise initiation interacts with nigrostriatal circuitry to determine long-term voluntary exercise behavior.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- The Myofunctional Rehabilitation of Atypical Swallowing in Children and Adolescents With Stress-Related Detrimental Habits: Single-Center Longitudinal Study in Ukraine.Clinical and experimental dental research · 2026Observational
- Barriers and facilitators to telerehabilitation adherence in young and middle-aged stroke survivors: a qualitative COM-B analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2026Article
- Ventral Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons Regulate Decision-Making or Motor Impulsivity Differentially across Learning and Biological Sex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Progressive Changes Between Thalamic Nuclei and Cortical Networks Across Stimulus-Response Learning.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
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- Food choice and neural reward systems in adolescents with anorexia nervosa and atypical anorexia nervosa.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- Effects of sex and estrous cycle on action-outcome contingencies.Behavioural brain research · 2025Article
- Striatal cell-type specific stability and reorganization underlying agency and habit.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- The Incentive-Sensitization Theory of Addiction 30 Years On.Annual review of psychology · 2025Review
- Understanding dual process cognition via the minimum description length principle.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- A dual-pathway architecture enables chronic stress to disrupt agency and promote habit formation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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- Goal-directed learning in adolescence: neurocognitive development and contextual influences.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2024Review
- Acute stress facilitates habitual behavior in female rats.Physiology & behavior · 2024Article
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Ameliorates Stress-Induced Sleep Disruption via Activating Infralimbic-Ventrolateral Preoptic Projections.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Timing Patterns in the Extended Basal Ganglia System.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024Review
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Habits, both good ones and bad ones, are pervasive in animal behavior. Important frameworks have been developed to understand habits through psychological and neurobiological studies. This work has given us a rich understanding of brain networks that promote habits, and has also helped us to understand what constitutes a habitual behavior as opposed to a behavior that is more flexible and prospective. Mounting evidence from studies using neural recording methods suggests that habit formation is not a simple process. We review this evidence and take the position that habits could be sculpted from multiple dissociable changes in neural activity. These changes occur across multiple brain regions and even within single brain regions. This strategy of classifying components of a habit based on different brain signals provides a potentially useful new way to conceive of disorders that involve overly fixed behaviors as arising from different potential dysfunctions within the brain's habit network.
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27069378PMC4826769W4301497489What OpenQuestion holds
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