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Toward a neurobiology of delusions

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Delusions are the false and often incorrigible beliefs that can cause severe suffering in mental illness. We cannot yet explain them in terms of underlying neurobiological abnormalities. However, by drawing on recent advances in the biological, computational and psychological processes of reinforcement learning, memory, and perception it may be feasible to account for delusions in terms of cognition and brain function. The account focuses on a particular parameter, prediction error--the mismatch between expectation and experience--that provides a computational mechanism common to cortical hierarchies, fronto-striatal circuits and the amygdala as well as parietal cortices. We suggest that delusions result from aberrations in how brain circuits specify hierarchical predictions, and how they compute and respond to prediction errors. Defects in these fundamental brain mechanisms can vitiate perception, memory, bodily agency and social learning such that individuals with delusions experience an internal and external world that healthy individuals would find difficult to comprehend. The present model attempts to provide a framework through which we can build a mechanistic and translational understanding of these puzzling symptoms.

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Authors
Corlett, P. R., Taylor, J. R., Wang, X.-J., Fletcher, P. C., & Krystal, J. H.
Affiliations
  • Yale University (US)
  • University of Cambridge (GB)
Corresponding author
Corlett, P.R.
Venue
Progress in Neurobiology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2010-11
Volume
92
Issue
3
Pages
345-369
ISSN
0301-0082 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2018699045
Cited by
394
References
438
Citations by year
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FWCI
34.61
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Progress in Neurobiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Wellcome Trust (064351)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA011717, R01DA015222)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
Keywords
delusions, prediction error, reinforcement learning, hierarchical prediction, frontostriatal circuits, amygdala, parietal cortex, memory, perception, bodily agency, social learning, computational psychiatry
MeSH terms
Brain, Cognition, Computer Simulation, Culture, Delusions, Humans, Learning, Memory, Models, Neurological, Nervous System Diseases, Neurobiology, Perception

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