Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Associations between aversive learning processes and transdiagnostic psychiatric symptoms in a general population sample

  • Toby Wise,
  • Raymond J. Dolan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17977-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Many psychiatric symptoms are linked to perceptions of danger, particularly when it is uncertain. Here, the authors show that a range of psychiatric symptoms are associated with the way people learn from safe and dangerous outcomes in the context of uncertainty.