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The objective is to study cerebral activity associated with reward-related decision making. We plan to analyze and localize electrical activity of the brain related to such processes with magnetoencephalography (MEG). We also want to modulate the activity of these areas using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). We would like to analyze the consequences of these procedures on both brain activity and behavioral performance. This protocol will provide new information on cortical regions involved in decision-making and how these areas communicate with one another.
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50 right-handed adult healthy volunteers.
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A probabilistic reversal task will be performed: subjects will have to choose between pairs of stimuli associated with changing probabilities of rewards and losses. Using MEG, their cerebral activity will be recorded during task performance.
Since we want to modulate the cortical activity of cerebral areas involved in reward-related decision making, the study will be carried out in 8 different visits (screening visit, structural MRI acquisition and 6 recordings visits). In one visit, decision-making will be studied with no previous cortical stimulation. In 3 visits, decision-making will be studied after stimulation of one of 3 regions of interest. In one visit, decision-making will be studied after stimulation of a cortical area that is not thought to be involved in the process. Lastly, decision-making will be analyzed following a sham stimulation to test a possible placebo effect of rTMS.
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