title: Neuroscience: Impaired Decision-Making in Parkinson's Disease.
abstract: When making decisions we combine previously acquired knowledge with the available current information to optimize our choices. A new study shows that Parkinson patients are impaired in using their prior knowledge leading to suboptimal decisions when current information is ambiguous.
authors.affiliation: Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit at the University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TH, UK; Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Level 6, West Wing, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK. Electronic address: damian.herz@ndcn.ox.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Damian M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Herz
authors.affiliation: Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit at the University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TH, UK; Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Level 6, West Wing, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK. Electronic address: rafal.bogacz@ndcn.ox.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Rafal
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bogacz
authors.affiliation: Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit at the University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TH, UK; Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Level 6, West Wing, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK. Electronic address: peter.brown@ndcn.ox.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D009488:Neurosciences; D010300:Parkinson Disease