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The Veterinary Record Oct 2021
Topics: Animals; Decision Making; Decision Making, Shared
PubMed: 34677856
DOI: 10.1002/vetr.1104 -
Journal of the American Dental... Aug 2015
Topics: Decision Making; Humans; Morals
PubMed: 26227640
DOI: 10.1016/j.adaj.2015.06.015 -
The Journal of the American College of... 2011A decision is a commitment of resources under conditions of risk in expectation of the best future outcome. The smart decision is always the strategy with the best...
A decision is a commitment of resources under conditions of risk in expectation of the best future outcome. The smart decision is always the strategy with the best overall expected value-the best combination of facts and values. Some of the special circumstances involved in decision making are discussed, including decisions where there are multiple goals, those where more than one person is involved in making the decision, using trigger points, framing decisions correctly, commitments to lost causes, and expert decision makers. A complex example of deciding about removal of asymptomatic third molars, with and without an EBD search, is discussed.
Topics: Choice Behavior; Decision Making; Decision Trees; Goals; Humans; Learning; Probability; Risk Assessment; Uncertainty
PubMed: 21739870
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Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy Mar 2024
Topics: Humans; Decision Making, Shared; Decision Making; Patient Participation
PubMed: 38353802
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-024-10196-w -
Bone Marrow Transplantation May 2016Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (alloHCT) may be the only curative option for some older adults with hematologic malignancies, and its associated risks of... (Review)
Review
Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (alloHCT) may be the only curative option for some older adults with hematologic malignancies, and its associated risks of significant morbidity and mortality warrant a clear, informed decision-making process. As older adults have not been transplanted routinely until recent years, younger people have been the prototypical group around whom the current process has developed. Yet, this process is applied to older adults who have different considerations than younger patients when making their transplant decision. Older adults do not have the open-ended lives of younger patients and are entitled to consider how to spend their remaining time. They also possess maturity and experience, and with proper knowledge, they can make informed choices rather than moving forward in the transplant process unaware. Notably, older patients face similar problems with the informed decision-making process in nephrology. Strategies such as providing education about alloHCT gradually and repeatedly during induction, presenting recent knowledge from the literature in plain language, and utilizing a team approach to patient education may help older adults make the best decision about transplant in light of their situation and values. Understanding when and how older adults decide on alloHCT is an important first step to further exploring this problem.
Topics: Age Factors; Aged; Choice Behavior; Decision Making; Health Services for the Aged; Hematologic Neoplasms; Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; Humans; Transplantation, Homologous
PubMed: 26457910
DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2015.241 -
Annals of the New York Academy of... Oct 2011Time and time perceptions are integral to decision making because any meaningful choice is embedded in a temporal context and requires the evaluation of future... (Review)
Review
Time and time perceptions are integral to decision making because any meaningful choice is embedded in a temporal context and requires the evaluation of future preferences and outcomes. The present review examines the influence of chronological age on time perceptions and horizons and discusses implications for decision making across the life span. Time influences and interacts with decision making in multiple ways. Specifically, this review examines the following topic areas: (1) processing speed and decision time, (2) internal clocks and time estimation, (3) mental representations of future time and intertemporal choice, and (4) global time horizons. For each aspect, patterns of age differences and implications for decision strategies and quality are discussed. The conclusion proposes frameworks to integrate different lines of research and identifies promising avenues for future inquiry.
Topics: Aging; Choice Behavior; Decision Making; Forecasting; Humans; Time; Time Perception
PubMed: 22023567
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06209.x -
Toxicological Sciences : An Official... Aug 2022
Topics: Decision Making; Uncertainty
PubMed: 35404442
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfac033 -
Current Opinion in Neurobiology Dec 2012In this review, I briefly summarize current neurobiological studies of decision-making that bear on two general themes. The first focuses on the nature of neural... (Review)
Review
In this review, I briefly summarize current neurobiological studies of decision-making that bear on two general themes. The first focuses on the nature of neural representation and dynamics in a decision circuit. Experimental and computational results suggest that ramping-to-threshold in the temporal domain and trajectory of population activity in the state space represent a duality of perspectives on a decision process. Moreover, a decision circuit can display several different dynamical regimes, such as the ramping mode and the jumping mode with distinct defining properties. The second is concerned with the relationship between biologically-based mechanistic models and normative-type models. A fruitful interplay between experiments and these models at different levels of abstraction have enabled investigators to pose increasingly refined questions and gain new insights into the neural basis of decision-making. In particular, recent work on multi-alternative decisions suggests that deviations from rational models of choice behavior can be explained by established neural mechanisms.
Topics: Animals; Brain; Choice Behavior; Decision Making; Humans; Models, Neurological; Nerve Net; Primates
PubMed: 23026743
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2012.08.006 -
Current Opinion in Neurobiology Dec 2012Social decision-making is arguably the most complex cognitive function performed by the human brain. This is due to two unique features of social decision-making. First,... (Review)
Review
Social decision-making is arguably the most complex cognitive function performed by the human brain. This is due to two unique features of social decision-making. First, predicting the behaviors of others is extremely difficult. Second, humans often take into consideration the well-beings of others during decision-making, but this is influenced by many contextual factors. Despite such complexity, studies on the neural basis of social decision-making have made substantial progress in the last several years. They demonstrated that the core brain areas involved in reinforcement learning and valuation, such as the ventral striatum and orbitofrontal cortex, make important contribution to social decision-making. Furthermore, the contribution of brain systems implicated for theory of mind during decision-making is being elucidated. Future studies are expected to provide additional details about the nature of information channeled through these brain areas.
Topics: Animals; Brain; Choice Behavior; Decision Making; Humans; Learning; Models, Psychological; Social Behavior
PubMed: 22704796
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2012.05.010 -
Nature Neuroscience Apr 2008
Topics: Behavioral Research; Cognitive Science; Decision Making; Frontal Lobe; Humans; Social Behavior; Uncertainty
PubMed: 18368044
DOI: 10.1038/nn0408-387