Magda del Río
magdadelrio.bsky.social
Magda del Río
@magdadelrio.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry
Reposted by Magda del Río
It's #MentalHealthAwareness week - time for facts: OCD is not about being tidy. It’s a serious mental health condition rooted in brain processes — and we’re studying it.
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OCD and the Brain
A knowledge hub designed by researchers, charities and people living with OCD to make the latest brain research on OCD more accessible.
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May 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
New preprint from my postdoc with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social at the MPC!

TL;DR: there is a strong recency bias in information gathering and it is attenuated in people on the #OCD spectrum - a possible mechanism for #indecisiveness 🤔

Paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Indecision and recency-weighted evidence integration in non-clinical and clinical settings
Biases in information gathering are common in the general population and can reach pathological extremes in paralysing indecisiveness, as in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Here, we adopt a new p...
www.biorxiv.org
November 13, 2024 at 9:55 PM