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ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2021

Neuronal Circuits for Social Decision-Making and Their Clinical Implications.

Raymundo Báez-Mendoza, Yuriria Vázquez, Emma P Mastrobattista, Ziv M Williams

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Review in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Neural synchrony links sensorimotor cortices in a network for facial motor control.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  8. How dopamine guides our social world.Pharmacological reviews · 2025
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  12. Neural Correlates of Social Decision-Making.Iranian journal of psychiatry · 2024
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  17. The neural circuits of monogamous behavior.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Raymundo Báez-MendozaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Yuriria VázquezLaboratory of Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States.
Emma P MastrobattistaDepartment of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Ziv M WilliamsDepartment of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Massachusetts General Hospital · USRockefeller University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Social living facilitates individual access to rewards, cognitive resources, and objects that would not be otherwise accessible. There are, however, some drawbacks to social living, particularly when competing for scarce resources. Furthermore, variability in our ability to make social decisions can be associated with neuropsychiatric disorders. The neuronal mechanisms underlying social decision-making are beginning to be understood. The momentum to study this phenomenon has been partially carried over by the study of economic decision-making. Yet, because of the similarities between these different types of decision-making, it is unclear what is a social decision. Here, we propose a definition of social decision-making as choices taken in a context where one or more conspecifics are involved in the decision or the consequences of it. Social decisions can be conceptualized as complex economic decisions since they are based on the subjective preferences between different goods. During social decisions, individuals choose based on their internal value estimate of the different alternatives. These are complex decisions given that conspecifics beliefs or actions could modify the subject's internal valuations at every choice. Here, we first review recent developments in our collective understanding of the neuronal mechanisms and circuits of social decision-making in primates. We then review literature characterizing populations with neuropsychiatric disorders showing deficits in social decision-making and the underlying neuronal circuitries associated with these deficits.

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decision makingmental healthneuroeconomicsneurophysiologyprimatespsychiatrysocial cognitiontranslational neuroscience

Identifiers

PMID34658766
PMCPMC8517320
OpenAlexW3202322099

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