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  • Neuroscience
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Substance use disorders are characterized by loss of control over consumption.
  • Limited research explores how substance use affects the perceived value of agency in motivated behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how substance use influences the preference for controllable environments in motivated decision-making.
  • To assess the impact of abstinence duration and recency of use on agency valuation across different substance classes.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a hierarchical gambling task to measure preference for control.
  • Combined task data with cross-sectional substance use surveys.
  • Employed computational cognitive modeling to analyze behavioral data.

Main Results:

  • Psychostimulant abstinence duration significantly modulated the preference for control, independent of payoff maximization.
  • For alcohol use, recency of consumption predicted a preference for varied outcomes, irrespective of control.
  • No significant effects of abstinence were observed for sedative use.

Conclusions:

  • Selective effects of psychostimulant use on agency valuation suggest a role for the dopaminergic system.
  • Findings highlight distinct impacts of different substance classes on the fundamental value of control.