Read Montague
Read Montague, PhD, is a professor and director of the Center for Human Neuroscience Research at Virginia Tech’s Fralin Biomedical Research Institute. His field of research focuses on human neuroscience, specifically how dopamine and serotonin regulate learning, motivation, and decision-making. His published work examines neurotransmitter dynamics during social and economic exchanges, as well as decision-making, mentalizing, and trust across mental health conditions such as borderline personality disorder and depression.
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Publications
- Assessing Epistemic Trust in Common Mental Health Disorders: The Clinical Validation of ETMCQ, Measurement Invariance and Control Group Comparison.
- Neuroeconomic adaptation to norm shifts is preserved in borderline personality disorder.
- A transcriptional program associated with neurotransmission in the living human brain.
- Dopamine dynamics in human anterior cingulate cortex during Pavlovian-instrumental conflict.
- Associations Between Dissociation and Childhood Trauma in Borderline Personality Disorder and Affective Disorders: A Network Analytic Approach.
- Mentalizing, epistemic trust and interpersonal problems in emotion regulation: A sequential path analysis across common mental health disorders and community control samples.
- An exploration of the relationship between ineffective modes of mentalization and difficulties related to borderline personality disorder: A network approach.
- Self-other generalisation shapes social interaction and is disrupted in borderline personality disorder.
- Caudate serotonin signaling during social exchange distinguishes essential tremor and Parkinson's disease patients.
- Dissociation in focus: replicating and extending network analytic insights based on the dissociative experiences scale.
- Attachment and Borderline Personality Features: The Mediating Roles of Hypomentalizing and Epistemic Mistrust.
- Dopamine and serotonin transients predict depressive symptom relief following deep brain stimulation of human subcallosal cingulate cortex.
- Diminished Adaptation, Satisfaction, and Neural Responses to Advantageous Social Signals in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa.
- Bayesian Decision-Making Under Uncertainty in Borderline Personality Disorder.
- Dopamine and serotonin in human substantia nigra track social context and value signals during economic exchange.
- Multiomic foundations of human prefrontal cortex tissue function.
- A machine-learning approach for differentiating borderline personality disorder from community participants with brain-wide functional connectivity.
- Attachment and borderline personality disorder as the dance unfolds: A quantitative analysis of a novel paradigm.
- The expectations humans have of a pleasurable sensation asymmetrically shape neuronal responses and subjective experiences to hot sauce.
- Mapping established psychopathology scales onto the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP).
- Naturalistic Hyperscanning with Wearable Magnetoencephalography.
- From Computation to Clinic.
- Sub-second Dopamine Signals during Risky Decision-Making in Patients with Impulse Control Disorder.
- Noradrenaline tracks emotional modulation of attention in human amygdala.
- Subsecond fluctuations in extracellular dopamine encode reward and punishment prediction errors in humans.
- What helps the helpers? Resilience and risk factors for general and profession-specific mental health problems in psychotherapists during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Elevated Neurobehavioral Responses to Negative Social Interactions in Women With Bulimia Nervosa.
- The mediating role of attachment and mentalising in the relationship between childhood maltreatment, self-harm and suicidality.
- Dynamic neural reconfiguration for distinct strategies during competitive social interactions.
- Interpersonal Problems in Borderline Personality Disorder: Associations With Mentalizing, Emotion Regulation, and Impulsiveness.
- Probing commitment in individuals with borderline personality disorder.
- Randomized Manipulation of Early Cognitive Experience Impacts Adult Brain Structure.
- Multi-Round Trust Game Quantifies Inter-Individual Differences in Social Exchange from Adolescence to Adulthood.
- Confirmation bias in the utilization of others' opinion strength.
- Multidirectional Pathways between Attachment, Mentalizing, and Posttraumatic Stress Symptomatology in the Context of Childhood Trauma.
- Sub-second Dopamine and Serotonin Signaling in Human Striatum during Perceptual Decision-Making.
- Diminished single-stimulus response in vmPFC to favorite people in children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
- Short-term mindfulness practice attenuates reward prediction errors signals in the brain.
- Loss Aversion Correlates With the Propensity to Deploy Model-Based Control.
- The latent structure of interpersonal problems: Validity of dimensional, categorical, and hybrid models.
- The Protective Action Encoding of Serotonin Transients in the Human Brain.
- A model of risk and mental state shifts during social interaction.
- Early childhood investment impacts social decision-making four decades later.
- Computational Underpinnings of Neuromodulation in Humans.
- Simulating future value in intertemporal choice.
- Predicting the knowledge-recklessness distinction in the human brain.
- Human substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area involvement in computing social error signals during the ultimatum game.
- Forgetting to Be Addicted: Reconsolidation and the Disconnection of Things Past.
- The Functional Architecture of the Brain Underlies Strategic Deception in Impression Management.
- Editorial.
- Charting the landscape of priority problems in psychiatry, part 2: pathogenesis and aetiology.
- Charting the landscape of priority problems in psychiatry, part 1: classification and diagnosis.
- Subsecond dopamine fluctuations in human striatum encode superposed error signals about actual and counterfactual reward.
- Asymmetry in functional connectivity of the human habenula revealed by high-resolution cardiac-gated resting state imaging.
- Mindfulness training increases cooperative decision making in economic exchanges: Evidence from fMRI.
- Neural differences in self-perception during illness and after weight-recovery in anorexia nervosa.
- Cocaine-dependent adults and recreational cocaine users are more likely than controls to choose immediate unsafe sex over delayed safer sex.
- Belief about Nicotine Modulates Subjective Craving and Insula Activity in Deprived Smokers.
- BOLD and its connection to dopamine release in human striatum: a cross-cohort comparison.
- An efficiency framework for valence processing systems inspired by soft cross-wiring.
- Necessary, yet dissociable contributions of the insular and ventromedial prefrontal cortices to norm adaptation: computational and lesion evidence in humans.
- Belief about nicotine selectively modulates value and reward prediction error signals in smokers.
- Mindfulness meditation modulates reward prediction errors in a passive conditioning task.
- Monte Carlo Planning Method Estimates Planning Horizons during Interactive Social Exchange.
- Neural responses to kindness and malevolence differ in illness and recovery in women with anorexia nervosa.
- Single stimulus fMRI produces a neural individual difference measure for Autism Spectrum Disorder.
- Cognitive strategies regulate fictive, but not reward prediction error signals in a sequential investment task.
- Mindfulness training modulates value signals in ventromedial prefrontal cortex through input from insular cortex.
- Irrational exuberance and neural crash warning signals during endogenous experimental market bubbles.
- Choosing Money over Drugs: The Neural Underpinnings of Difficult Choice in Chronic Cocaine Users.
- Nonpolitical images evoke neural predictors of political ideology.
- Computational psychiatry: the brain as a phantastic organ.
- Law and neuroscience: recommendations submitted to the President's Bioethics Commission.
- Computational substrates of norms and their violations during social exchange.
- Computational heterogeneity in the human mesencephalic dopamine system.
- Keeping up with the Joneses: interpersonal prediction errors and the correlation of behavior in a tandem sequential choice task.
- Economic probes of mental function and the extraction of computational phenotypes.
- Computational psychiatry.
- Implicit signals in small group settings and their impact on the expression of cognitive capacity and associated brain responses.
- Imaging models of valuation during social interaction in humans.
- Distinct contributions of the amygdala and parahippocampal gyrus to suspicion in a repeated bargaining game.
- The scylla and charybdis of neuroeconomic approaches to psychopathology.
- Neuroeconomics: a bridge for translational research.
- Active inference and agency: optimal control without cost functions.
- What is value-accumulated reward or evidence?
- Computational phenotyping of two-person interactions reveals differential neural response to depth-of-thought.
- Interoception drives increased rational decision-making in meditators playing the ultimatum game.
- Domain expertise insulates against judgment bias by monetary favors through a modulation of ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
- Sub-second dopamine detection in human striatum.
- Neural correlates of effective learning in experienced medical decision-makers.
- BOLD Responses to Negative Reward Prediction Errors in Human Habenula.
- Monetary favors and their influence on neural responses and revealed preference.
- Neuroeconomic approaches to mental disorders.
- Biosensor approach to psychopathology classification.
- Neural signatures of strategic types in a two-person bargaining game.
- Functional brain network changes associated with maintenance of cognitive function in multiple sclerosis.
- Ready...go: Amplitude of the FMRI signal encodes expectation of cue arrival time.
- Electrophysiological and hemodynamic responses to reward prediction violation.
- Adult attachment predicts maternal brain and oxytocin response to infant cues.
- Neural responses to sanction threats in two-party economic exchange.
- Self responses along cingulate cortex reveal quantitative neural phenotype for high-functioning autism.
- Smokers' brains compute, but ignore, a fictive error signal in a sequential investment task.
- A framework for studying the neurobiology of value-based decision making.
- What's in a smile? Maternal brain responses to infant facial cues.
- Free will.
- The rupture and repair of cooperation in borderline personality disorder.
- Editorial overview.
- The value of victory: social origins of the winner's curse in common value auctions.
- Vividness of mental imagery: individual variability can be measured objectively.
- For goodness' sake.
- Disrupting addiction through the loss of drug-associated internal states.
- Short-term memory traces for action bias in human reinforcement learning.
- Neural signature of fictive learning signals in a sequential investment task.
- The first wave.
- To detect and correct: norm violations and their enforcement.
- Efficient statistics, common currencies and the problem of reward-harvesting.
- Neuroeconomics: a view from neuroscience.
- When things are better or worse than expected: the medial frontal cortex and the allocation of processing resources.
- Motor-sensory recalibration leads to an illusory reversal of action and sensation.
- Policy adjustment in a dynamic economic game.