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Why Depressed Mood is Adaptive: A Numerical Proof of Principle for an Evolutionary Systems Theory of Depression Cover

Why Depressed Mood is Adaptive: A Numerical Proof of Principle for an Evolutionary Systems Theory of Depression

Computational Psychiatry
Volume 5 (2021): Issue 1
By: Axel Constant,  Casper Hesp,  Christopher G. Davey,  Karl J. Friston and  Paul B. Badcock  
Open Access
|Jun 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/cpsy.70 | Journal eISSN: 2379-6227
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Language: English
Submitted on: Apr 14, 2021
Accepted on: May 20, 2021
Published on: Jun 2, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Depression,
Anhedonia,
Social withdrawal,
Active inference,
Adaptive Prior,
Computational phenotyping,
Evolutionary systems theory,
Simulation study,
Social risk hypothesis,
Two-arm bandit

© 2021 Axel Constant, Casper Hesp, Christopher G. Davey, Karl J. Friston, Paul B. Badcock, published by Ubiquity Press
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