Vasco A. Conceição

This study shows that serotonin reduces belief stickiness, improving state inference, and links this effect to the therapeutic benefits of SSRIs in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

This study shows acute stress reduces prediction error signals in the dorsal striatum during reinforcement learning, particularly for positive outcomes.

This study shows acute stress impairs reward learning in men by slowing learning from positive prediction errors, consistent with dopamine disruptions.