Mohamad El Haj, Marie Caillaud, Ahmed Moustafa, Adriana Prundean, Clarisse Scherer, Christophe Verny, Philippe Allain
BACKGROUND: When making decisions, one often faces a trade-off between immediate and long-term rewards. In these situations, people may prefer immediate over later rewards, even if immediate rewards are smaller than later ones; a phenomenon known as temporal discounting. In this study, we, for the first time, assessed temporal discounting in three populations: participants with manifest Huntington disease (HD), participants with premanifest HD, and control participants. METHODS: Using the temporal discounting task, we invited participants to choose between small immediate amount of money vs...
March 24, 2023: Neurological Sciences