Probing neural dynamics of adaptive decision-making in health and brain disorders

Date/Time: 2 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Venue: Colin Ingram Seminar Room, Institute of Neuroscience, The Medical School

Abstract: Perceptual decision-making involves multiple cognitive maps across distributed brain areas. It is less clear which brain regions are essential and how changes in neural coding flexibly re-maps with altered stimulus-reward contingency altering animal behaviour. In this talk, I will highlight one such circuit mechanism and present evidence of cognate neural correlates of flexible decision-making. Based on this, I will also argue for a new conceptual framework based on computational psychiatry to understand pathophysiology in complex neurological brain disorders.