ArticleBiological psychiatry2023
Dissociation of Cognitive Effort-Based Decision Making and Its Associations With Symptoms, Cognition, and Everyday Life Function Across Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and Depression.
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- Understanding Effort-Cost Decision-Making Mechanisms in Mood and Psychotic Disorders: A Computational Modeling Approach Across Physical and Cognitive Effort Paradigms.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2026Article
- Computational phenotypes underlying effort-based decision-making and negative symptoms in a transdiagnostic severe mental illness sample.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- Examining effects of effort and reward magnitude on effort-cost decision-making in people with major depressive disorder.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Arousal shapes motivation: an integrative framework for understanding motivational deficits.Translational psychiatry · 2026Review
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- Blunted experience of pleasure, unsystematic subjective value representation, and disrupted goal-directed behaviors: an ecological momentary assessment study across mood and psychotic disorders.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026Article
- Shared and distinct features of common effort-based decision-making paradigms and their relation to brain structure and neuropsychiatric conditions: An integrated narrative review.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Review
- Temporal dynamics of effort discounting: The roles of cognitive load and depression.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Passive sensing of anhedonia and amotivation in a transdiagnostic sample.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2025Article
- Fatigue Symptoms Influence Effort-Based Decision-Making in Major Depressive Disorder.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- A Systematic Review: Investigating Biomarkers of Anhedonia and Amotivation in Depression and Cannabis Use.JAACAP open · 2025Review
- Evidence for shallow cognitive maps in schizophrenia.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Computational Phenotyping of Effort-Based Decision Making in Unmedicated Adults With Remitted Depression.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2025Article
- Increased Sensitivity to Effort and Perception of Effort in People with Schizophrenia.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Article
- Impulse Control Disorders and Effort-Based Decision-Making in Parkinson's Disease Patients with Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2025Article
- Socially relevant affective learning in psychosis: Relations to deficits in motivation and pleasure and cognitive ability.Schizophrenia research · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundAnhedonia and amotivation are symptoms of many different mental health disorders that are frequently associated with functional disability, but it is not clear whether the same processes contribute to motivational impairments across disorders. This study focused on one possible factor, the willingness to exert cognitive effort, referred to as cognitive effort-cost decision making.
methodsWe examined performance on the deck choice task as a measure of cognitive effort-cost decision making, in which people choose to complete an easy task for a small monetary reward or a harder task for larger rewards, in 5 groups: healthy control (n = 80), schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder (n = 50), bipolar disorder with psychosis (n = 58), current major depression (n = 60), and past major depression (n = 51). We examined cognitive effort-cost decision making in relation to clinician and self-reported motivation symptoms, working memory and cognitive control performance, and life function measured by ecological momentary assessment and passive sensing.
resultsWe found a significant diagnostic group × reward interaction (F
conclusionsThese findings suggest that the mechanisms contributing to motivational impairments differ among individuals with psychosis spectrum disorders versus depression.
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