Cited by 36Genetic Neurodegenerative DiseasesNeural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesNeurological disorders and treatments

Disordered Decision Making: A Cognitive Framework for Apathy and Impulsivity in Huntington’s Disease

Open access
Morris, Lee‐Anne, O'Callaghan, Claire, Le Heron, Campbell·2022·Movement Disorders

Abstract

A caregiver's all-too-familiar narrative - "He doesn't think through what he does, but mostly he does nothing." Apathy and impulsivity, debilitating and poorly understood, commonly co-occur in Huntington's disease (HD). HD is a neurodegenerative disease with manifestations bridging clinical neurology and psychiatry. In addition to movement and cognitive symptoms, neurobehavioral disturbances, particularly apathy and impulsivity, are prevalent features of HD, occurring early in the disease course, often worsening with disease progression, and substantially reducing quality of life. Treatments remain limited, in part because of limited mechanistic understanding of these behavioral disturbances. However, emerging work within the field of decision-making neuroscience and beyond points to common neurobiological mechanisms underpinning these seemingly disparate problems. These insights bridge the gap between underlying disease pathology and clinical phenotype, offering new treatment strategies, novel behavioral and physiological biomarkers of HD, and deeper understanding of human behavior. In this review, we apply the neurobiological framework of cost-benefit decision making to the problems of apathy and impulsivity in HD. Through this decision-making lens, we develop a mechanistic model that elucidates the occurrence of these behavioral disturbances and points to potential treatment strategies and crucial research priorities. © 2022 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson Movement Disorder Society.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1002/mds.29013

Cites

149 of 149 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 1

  1. [43]Stephens DW. Foraging Theory. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press; 1986.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Morris, L., O'Callaghan, C., & Le Heron, C.
Affiliations
  • New Zealand Brain Research Institute (NZ)
  • Brain and Mind Centre and School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health University of Sydney Sydney New South Wales Australia
  • Department of Medicine University of Otago Christchurch New Zealand
Venue
Movement Disorders
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2022-05-02
Volume
37
Issue
6
Pages
1149-1163
ISSN
  • 0885-3185 (ISSN-L)
  • 1531-8257
OpenAlex
W4225268748
Cited by
36
References
148
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 9
FWCI
1.22
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Movement Disorders (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Neurology › Neurological disorders and treatments
Keywords
Huntington's disease, apathy, impulsivity, decision-making, cost-benefit decision making, neurobehavioral disorders, cognitive framework, biomarkers, treatment options, neurodegeneration
MeSH terms
Cognition, Decision Making, Humans, Huntington Disease, Impulsive Behavior, Male, Parkinson Disease, Quality of Life, Disease Progression, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Apathy

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review