Affiliation: Paris Brain Institute, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France
The lecture introduces a theory of mood as an average cost/benefit trade-off, expected across all potential actions. Model simulations and neurophysiology experiments suggest that the theory may account for how mood varies and affects decisions, and thereby explain both the function of mood fluctuations and the emergence of mood disorders.
Prof. Dr. Heinz Beck Institute of Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research Life and Brain Center University of Bonn Medical Center Sigmund-Freud Str. 25 53127 Bonn
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Prof. Dr. Heinz Beck Institute of Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research Life and Brain Center University of Bonn Medical Center Sigmund-Freud Str. 25 53127 Bonn
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Prof. Dr. Heinz Beck Institute of Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research Life and Brain Center University of Bonn Medical Center Sigmund-Freud Str. 25 53127 Bonn