Conflict and Uncertainty in the context of Compulsive disorders

How we make decisions depend on various factors, a key one being Context. Scenarios such as deciding to whether to invest in house or stock market, or much more mundane decisions such as 'When to stop washing hands' has critical relevance in daily life in healthy as well as psychiatric disorders.

Using data-driven (hierarchical drift diffusion modelling) mechanisms of evidence accumulation, I have shown that patients with Obsessive compulsive disorder are slow (drift rate) and have difficulty processing choices that are similar in value and have high reward uncertainty compared to healthy controls. Please refer here for more details .