As per Eureka Alert!, the findings, published in Nature Neuroscience, offer a real-time look at how the brain weighs risk against reward and could eventually help improve treatments for psychiatric conditions associated with excessive risk-taking or avoidance, including addiction, gambling disorders, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
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Brain activity can predict risky decisions before they happen: Study
September 17, 2026As per Eureka Alert!, the findings, published in Nature Neuroscience, offer a real-time look at how the brain weighs risk against reward and could eventually help improve treatments for psychiatric conditions associated with excessive risk-taking or avoidance, including addiction, gambling disorders, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).