Validating a dimension of doubt in decision-making: A proposed endophenotype for obsessive-compulsive disorder

Tanya Marton, Jack Samuels, Paul Nestadt, Janice Krasnow, Ying Wang, Marshall Shuler, Vidyulata Kamath, Vikram S Chib, Arnold Bakker and Gerald Nestadt

PLOS ONE, 2019, vol. 14, issue 6, 1-14

Abstract: Doubt is subjective uncertainty about one’s perceptions and recall. It can impair decision-making and is a prominent feature of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). We propose that evaluation of doubt during decision-making provides a useful endophenotype with which to study the underlying pathophysiology of OCD and potentially other psychopathologies. For the current study, we developed a new instrument, the Doubt Questionnaire, to clinically assess doubt. The random dot motion task was used to measure reaction time and subjective certainty, at varying levels of perceptual difficulty, in individuals who scored high and low on doubt, and in individuals with and without OCD. We found that doubt scores were significantly higher in OCD cases than controls. Drift diffusion modeling revealed that high doubt scores predicted slower evidence accumulation than did low doubt scores; and OCD diagnosis lower than controls. At higher levels of dot coherence, OCD participants exhibited significantly slower drift rates than did controls (q

Date: 2019
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