The Izquierdo Lab at UCLA studies the brain mechanisms of flexible reward learning and value-based decision making, with a focus on frontocortical circuits.

Pain promotes protective behavior but can interfere with other biologically important goals. Survival may require overcoming pain to obtain rewards, secure resources or escape danger, yet evidence for...

Decoding neural threat-reward information using high-precision MEG in humans shows that defensive cardiac states sharpen low-frequency value representations in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex during ...

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

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Wie gut eine Therapie wirkt, wird auch durch den Placebo-Effekt beeinflusst. Wie sich dieser beeinflussen lässt und welche Rolle Therapeutinnen und Therapeuten dabei spielen, erläutert Professorin Ulr...

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Study shows that positive treatment expectations can bias emotional perception toward happiness and predict antidepressant outcomes.

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Study shows that positive treatment expectations can bias emotional perception toward happiness and predict antidepressant outcomes.