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ArticleeLife2025

A common alteration in effort-based decision-making in apathy, anhedonia, and late circadian rhythm.

Sara Z Mehrhof, Camilla L Nord

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Article in eLife, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Computational phenotyping of effort-based decision-making in type-2 diabetes on and off semaglutide.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sara Z MehrhofMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8267-3898
Camilla L NordMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9281-3417

Funding

AXA Research Fund G102329Medical Research Council MC_UU_00030/12NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre BRC-1215- 20014Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 10.35802/226490
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Motivational deficits are common in several brain disorders, and motivational syndromes like apathy and anhedonia predict worse outcomes. Disrupted effort-based decision-making may represent a neurobiological underpinning of motivational deficits, shared across neuropsychiatric disorders. We measured effort-based decision-making in 994 participants using a gamified online task, combined with computational modelling, and validated offline for test-retest reliability. In two pre-registered studies, we first replicated studies linking impaired effort-based decision-making to neuropsychiatric syndromes, taking both a transdiagnostic and a diagnostic-criteria approach. Next, testing participants with

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AnhedoniaApathyCircadian RhythmDecision MakingAdolescentAdultFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedMotivationYoung Adultcircadian rhythmcomputational biologycomputational psychiatryeffort-based decision-makinghumanmotivational syndromesneurosciencesystems biology

Identifiers

PMID40522113
PMCPMC12169849

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