Prof. Nitzan Shahar
Research work
Our lab is dedicated to describing the how deficits value-based processes underlying mental health issues, and mostly those related to ADHD and OCD. Our over reaching goal is to contribute to both the theoretical and clinical domains, by providing novel, reliable and validate measurements that will allow better prediction of risk, treatment outcome and relapse among these populations.
ADHD; OCD; Computational Psychiatry; Reinforcement-learning
Areas of interest & scientific knowledge
Behavioral Neuroscience
Clinical Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience
Computational & Theoretical Neuroscience
Methodology
Selected Publications
- Credit assignment to state-independent task representations and its relationship with model-based decision making Nitzan Shahar, Rani Moran, Tobias U Hauser, Rogier A Kievit, Daniel McNamee, Michael Moutoussis, Raymond J Dolan, NSPN Consortium Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences https://www.pnas.org/content/116/32/15871.short
- Improving the reliability of model-based decision-making estimates in the two-stage decision task with reaction-times and drift-diffusion modeling Nitzan Shahar, Tobias U Hauser, Michael Moutoussis, Rani Moran, Mehdi Keramati, Raymond J Dolan PLoS computational biology https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006803&rev=1
- Memory for action rules and reaction time variability in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder Nitzan Shahar, Andrei R Teodorescu, Anat Karmon-Presser, Gideon E Anholt, Nachshon Meiran Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245190221600063X
- Computation in psychotherapy, or how computational psychiatry can aid learning-based psychological therapies Michael Moutoussis, Nitzan Shahar, Tobias U Hauser, Raymond J Dolan Computational Psychiatry https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/CPSY_a_00014
