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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Gerontology

Background:

  • Decision-making is a complex cognitive function.
  • It involves interconnected cortical and subcortical structures.
  • Aging and neurological disorders can impair decision-making abilities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore two modalities of decision making: under risk and under ambiguity.
  • To investigate the neural substrates and aging effects on these decision modalities.
  • To re-evaluate the relationship between decision making and cognitive functions.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing hypotheses on decision-making modalities.
  • Comparison of theoretical models with clinical data from aging and neurological disorders.
  • Analysis of studies examining decision-making in Parkinson's disease and cortical neurodegenerative diseases.

Main Results:

  • Decision making under risk is linked to executive functions and cognitive frontal striatal loops.
  • Decision making under ambiguity is linked to preliminary reinforcements and limbic frontal striatal loops.
  • Usual aging appears to affect decision making under ambiguity, suggesting premature limbic loop aging.

Conclusions:

  • Clinical data challenges the strict separation of decision-making modalities and their neural substrates.
  • The impact of aging and neurodegenerative diseases on decision-making requires further investigation.
  • The role of executive functions in decision making under ambiguity warrants reconsideration.