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Impaired flexible reward-based decision-making in binge eating disorder: Evidence from computational modeling and functional neuroimaging

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Reiter,  Andrea
Department Neurology, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;
Lifespan Developmental Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, TU Dresden, Germany;

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Schlagenhauf,  Florian
Department Neurology, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;
Lifespan Developmental Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, TU Dresden, Germany;
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany;

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Deserno,  Lorenz
Department Neurology, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;
Department of Neurology, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany;
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany;

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Reiter, A., Heinze, H.-J., Schlagenhauf, F., & Deserno, L. (2017). Impaired flexible reward-based decision-making in binge eating disorder: Evidence from computational modeling and functional neuroimaging. Neuropsychopharmacology, 42(3), 628-637. doi:10.1038/npp.2016.95.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002A-A3A8-5
Abstract
Despite its clinical relevance and the recent recognition as a diagnostic category in the DSM-5, Binge Eating Disorder (BED) has rarely been investigated from a cognitive neuroscientific perspective targeting a more precise neurocognitive profiling of the disorder. BED patients suffer from a lack of behavioral control during recurrent binge eating episodes and thus, fail to adapt their behavior in the face of negative consequences, eg, high risk for obesity. To examine impairments in flexible reward-based decision-making, we exposed BED patients (n=22) and matched healthy individuals (n=22) to a reward-guided decision-making task during functional resonance imaging (fMRI). Performing fMRI analysis informed via computational modeling of choice behavior, we were able to identify specific signatures of altered decision-making in BED. On the behavioral level, we observed impaired behavioral adaptation in BED, which was due to enhanced switching behavior, a putative deficit in striking a balance between exploration and exploitation appropriately. This was accompanied by diminished activation related to exploratory decisions in the anterior insula/ventro-lateral prefrontal cortex. Moreover, while so-called model-free reward prediction errors remained intact, representation of ventro-medial prefrontal learning signatures, incorporating inference on unchosen options, was reduced in BED, which was associated with successful decision-making in the task. Based on a computational psychiatry account, the presented findings contribute to defining a neurocognitive phenotype of BED.