University of Maryland School of Medicine

A systematic review of hydrocephalus and psychiatric comorbidities in children and adults with spina bifida

Spina bifida in children and adults is accompanied by substantial psychiatric comorbidity. Hydrocephalus is a common complication of spina bifida and is associated with functional and cognitive deficits, but the role of hydrocephalus in psychiatric comorbidities of spina bifida i...

Modeling decision dynamics disentangles working memory, cognitive control and reinforcement learning and reveals clinical differences

Various neurocognitive processes contribute to reinforcement learning (RL) and decision making, requiring careful task designs and computational modeling to disentangle them. People rely on capacity-limited working memory (WM) to rapidly and flexibly adapt behavior during learnin...