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ReviewAnnual review of psychology2022

Computational Psychiatry Needs Time and Context.

Peter F Hitchcock, Eiko I Fried, Michael J Frank

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Review in Annual review of psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

64 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. The effect of sleep-wake behaviors on the onset of mania in youth: A computational model.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2026
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  11. Decision-Making in Repeated Games: Insights from Active Inference.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  18. Day-to-day fluctuations in motivation drive effort-based decision-making.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Peter F HitchcockDepartment of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA; email: peter_hitchcock@brown.edu, michael_frank@brown.edu.
Eiko I FriedDepartment of Clinical Psychology, Leiden University, 2333 AK Leiden, The Netherlands; email: eiko.fried@gmail.com.
Michael J FrankDepartment of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA; email: peter_hitchcock@brown.edu, michael_frank@brown.edu.

Funding

Project 4_Bruchas : Circuit-level Approaches for Dissecting Approach/Avoidance Behaviors Mediated by Nociceptin Systems in MiceP50MH119467 · NIMH · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI GRAYBIEL, ANN M · 2020 to 2024
$15.9M
Cognitive Neurocomputational Task Reliability and Clinical Applications ConsortiumR01MH084840 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Deanna Barch, Cameron S. Carter · 2008 to 2026
$8.5M
How Does Rumination Alter Learning and Choice Mechanisms in Reinforcement Learning?F32MH123055 · NIMH · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI HITCHCOCK, PETER FRANK · 2020 to 2023
$187k
NIMH NIH HHS F32 MH123055NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH119467NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH084840
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Why has computational psychiatry yet to influence routine clinical practice? One reason may be that it has neglected context and temporal dynamics in the models of certain mental health problems. We develop three heuristics for estimating whether time and context are important to a mental health problem: Is it characterized by a core neurobiological mechanism? Does it follow a straightforward natural trajectory? And is intentional mental content peripheral to the problem? For many problems the answers are no, suggesting that modeling time and context is critical. We review computational psychiatry advances toward this end, including modeling state variation, using domain-specific stimuli, and interpreting differences in context. We discuss complementary network and complex systems approaches. Novel methods and unification with adjacent fields may inspire a new generation of computational psychiatry.

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Mental DisordersPsychiatryHumansMental Healthcomputational psychiatrydomain specificityfunctional analysisnetwork approachstate versus traittemporal dynamics

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PMID34579545
PMCPMC8822328

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