Getting Below the Surface of Behavioral Symptoms in Psychiatry

Computational psychiatry has emerged in recent years as a potentially powerful new way of analyzing behavioral or clinical symptoms (1 –5). Traditionally, behavior has been quantified by reaction time, response accuracy, or another easily measurable parameter of performance on a test task. Computationally, behavior is quantified by learning rate, response bias, or some other parameter of the underlying cognitive processes driving measurable task performance.

Source: Biological Psychiatry - January 22, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Edward Bullmore Tags: Commentary Source Type: research