Assessment of Prospective Memory, Risky Decision-Making, Collaborative Decision-Making among Individuals with Morning and Evening Circadian Typology

Risky decision making among adolescents

In this report, we analyze adolescent risk-taking from a behavioral decision-making perspective, with respect to the following questions: •Why is adolescent risky decision making important? •What is rational, adaptive, or good decision-making for adolescents (i.e., normative approaches)? •What are the main explanatory models of adolescent risk taking? •What are the key data (i.e., those data th...

Collaborative Spatial Decision-Making

The central task in practical problem solving is to identify and choose among alterative courses of action. Computer sciencehas failed to provide adequate tools for supporting rational, effective and fair decision-making under the conditions which usuallyprevail. Especially, computer science has yet to develop models of rational decision-making in groups which adequately take intoco...

Memory and decision making.

The only reason we remember things is to make better decisions. What is memory? Memory can be defined as any physical change that carries information about the historical past. Typically, in animal systems, memory is stored in physical changes inside How these physical changes affect information processing depends on how those systems compute information processing. In practice, memory needs to...

Decision making, risky behavior, and alcoholism.

Alcoholism can be described as a disorder characterized by impulsive decision-making processes, wherein potential short-term appetitive outcomes of drinking (e.g., intoxication) are deemed more important than potential long-term aversive consequences of drinking (e.g., drunk-driving arrests). Separate but interrelated neurocognitive pathways to impulsive decision making exist - one reflected by...

Decision Making Skills Among Individuals with Disorders of Affect Regulation

Dopaminergic modulation of risky decision-making.

Many psychiatric disorders are characterized by abnormal risky decision-making and dysregulated dopamine receptor expression. The current study was designed to determine how different dopamine receptor subtypes modulate risk-taking in young adult rats, using a "Risky Decision-making Task" that involves choices between small "safe" rewards and large "risky" rewards accompanied by adverse consequ...