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ArticleChronic stress (Thousand Oaks, Calif.)

Applying Reinforcement Learning to Rodent Stress Research.

Clara Liao, Alex C Kwan

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Article in Chronic stress (Thousand Oaks, Calif.). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Clara LiaoInterdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Alex C KwanInterdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2169-1667
Yale University · US

Funding

Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (INP)T32NS041228 · NINDS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Charles A Greer, Marina R Picciotto · 2001 to 2026
$12.0M
A Dendritic Substrate for Fast-Acting Antidepressant ActionR01MH121848 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI KWAN, CHUN-HAY ALEX · 2020 to 2024
$2.6M
Frontal cortical neural dynamics and chronic social stressR01MH112750 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI KWAN, CHUN-HAY ALEX · 2017 to 2021
$2.1M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH112750NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH121848NINDS NIH HHS T32 NS041228
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rodent models are an invaluable tool for studying the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying stress and depressive disorders. However, the widely used behavioral assays to measure depressive-like states in rodents have serious limitations. In this commentary, we suggest that learning tasks, particularly those that can be analyzed with the framework of reinforcement learning, are ideal for assaying reward processing deficits relevant to depression. The key advantages of these tasks are their repeatable, quantifiable nature and the link to clinical studies. By optimizing the behavioral readout of stress-induced phenotypes in rodents, a reinforcement learning-based approach may help bridge the translational gap and advance antidepressant discovery.

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anhedoniaantidepressantchronic stressdecision-makingdepressionreward learning

Identifiers

PMID33598593
PMCPMC7863143
OpenAlexW3128684572

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