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Overview

Quentin J. M. Huys is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience with a strong focus on subfields such as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Applied Psychology.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, including Mental Health Research Topics, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Treatment of Major Depression, Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, and Memory and Neural Mechanisms.

Quentin J. M. Huys has contributed to numerous publications, frequently appearing in respected venues such as Biological Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, JAMA Psychiatry, and Scientific Reports.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Advances in the computational understanding of mental illness, 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Computational Mechanisms of Effort and Reward Decisions in Patients With Depression and Their Association With Relapse After Antidepressant Discontinuation, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Realizing the Clinical Potential of Computational Psychiatry: Report From the Banbury Center Meeting, February 2019, 2020, Biological Psychiatry
  • How representative are neuroimaging samples? Large-scale evidence for trait anxiety differences between fMRI and behaviour-only research participants, 2021, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Stimulation of the vagus nerve reduces learning in a go/no-go reinforcement learning task, 2020, European Neuropsychopharmacology

The scientist collaborates regularly with several frequent co-authors, including Isabel M. Berwian, Michael Browning, Henrik Walter, Klaas Ε. Stephan, and Erich Seifritz.

Best Publications

  • Computational psychiatry as a bridge from neuroscience to clinical applications

    Quentin J M Huys;Tiago V Maia;Michael J Frank

  • Bonsai Trees in Your Head: How the Pavlovian System Sculpts Goal-Directed Choices by Pruning Decision Trees

    Quentin J. M. Huys;Quentin J. M. Huys;Quentin J. M. Huys;Neir Eshel;Elizabeth J. P. O'Nions;Luke Sheridan

  • Go and no-go learning in reward and punishment: interactions between affect and effect.

    Marc Guitart-Masip;Quentin J.M. Huys;Quentin J.M. Huys;Lluis Fuentemilla;Peter Dayan

  • Disentangling the Roles of Approach, Activation and Valence in Instrumental and Pavlovian Responding

    Quentin J. M. Huys;Roshan Cools;Martin Gölzer;Eva Friedel

  • Mapping anhedonia onto reinforcement learning: a behavioural meta-analysis

    Quentin Jm Huys;Diego A Pizzagalli;Ryan Bogdan;Peter Dayan

  • Serotonin in Affective Control

    Peter Dayan;Quentin J.M. Huys

  • Computational Psychiatry: towards a mathematically informed understanding of mental illness

    Rick A Adams;Quentin J M Huys;Jonathan P Roiser

  • Dopamine restores reward prediction errors in old age

    Rumana Chowdhury;Marc Guitart-Masip;Marc Guitart-Masip;Christian Lambert;Christian Lambert;Peter Dayan

  • The anchoring bias reflects rational use of cognitive resources

    Falk Lieder;Falk Lieder;Thomas L. Griffiths;Thomas L. Griffiths;Quentin J. M. Huys;Quentin J. M. Huys;Noah D. Goodman

  • Interplay of approximate planning strategies

    Quentin J. M. Huys;Quentin J. M. Huys;Níall Lally;Níall Lally;Paul Faulkner;Neir Eshel

  • Ventral striatal dopamine reflects behavioral and neural signatures of model-based control during sequential decision making

    Lorenz Deserno;Lorenz Deserno;Lorenz Deserno;Quentin J. M. Huys;Rebecca Boehme;Ralph Buchert

  • Striatal dysfunction during reversal learning in unmedicated schizophrenia patients

    Florian Schlagenhauf;Quentin J. M. Huys;Lorenz Deserno;Michael A. Rapp

  • Serotonin, Inhibition, and Negative Mood

    Peter Dayan;Quentin J. M Huys;Quentin J. M Huys

  • Action Dominates Valence in Anticipatory Representations in the Human Striatum and Dopaminergic Midbrain

    Marc Guitart-Masip;Lluis Fuentemilla;Dominik R. Bach;Quentin J. M. Huys

  • Depression: A Decision-Theoretic Analysis

    Quentin J.M. Huys;Nathaniel Douglass Daw;Peter Dayan

  • Frontal Theta Overrides Pavlovian Learning Biases

    James F. Cavanagh;Ian Eisenberg;Marc Guitart-Masip;Quentin Huys

  • Model-based and model-free decisions in alcohol dependence

    Miriam Sebold;Lorenz Deserno;Lorenz Deserno;Stephan Nebe;Daniel J Schad

  • Charting the landscape of priority problems in psychiatry, part 1: classification and diagnosis

    Klaas E Stephan;Klaas E Stephan;Klaas E Stephan;Dominik R Bach;Dominik R Bach;Paul C Fletcher;Jonathan Flint

  • Efficient Estimation of Detailed Single-Neuron Models

    Quentin J. M. Huys;Misha B. Ahrens;Liam Paninski

  • Machine learning and big data in psychiatry: toward clinical applications.

    Robb B. Rutledge;Adam M. Chekroud;Quentin J. M. Huys;Quentin J. M. Huys

  • Dopamine restores reward prediction errors in old age (vol 16, pg 648, 2013)

    R Chowdhury;M Guitart-Masip;C Lambert;P Dayan

Frequent Co-Authors

Florian Schlagenhauf
Florian Schlagenhauf Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Michael A. Rapp
Michael A. Rapp University of Potsdam
Klaas E. Stephan
Klaas E. Stephan University of Zurich
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Lorenz Deserno
Lorenz Deserno University of Wurzburg
Henrik Walter
Henrik Walter Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Erich Seifritz
Erich Seifritz University of Zurich
Roshan Cools
Roshan Cools Radboud University
Jonathan P. Roiser
Jonathan P. Roiser University College London

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