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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Pathology of Self-Confidence?

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A striking change OCD patients repeatedly describe following treatment with deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the ventral anterior limb of internal capsule (vALIC) is an immediate increase in self-confidence. We show how the DBS-induced changes in self-confidence reported by our patients can be understood neurocognitively in terms of active inference.

Keywords

OCD
deep brain stimulation
affordances
field of affordances
self-confidence
anxiety
active inference
precision estimation
ventral striatum

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