Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies
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Reward-related self-agency is disturbed in depression and anxiety
Researchers tested a new task that measures how people feel they caused rewards or losses. They studied 52 healthy adults and 20 adults with depression or anxiety in person, and 254 people online. Healthy people felt more personal control after wins than after losses. People with depression or anxiety showed…
