Impairment of Decision-making Cognition in a Case of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD) Presenting With Pathologic Gambling and Hoarding as the Initial Symptoms

We present a case of a 57-year-old male architect with a master’s degree in economics who ran his own business and gave lectures until 2016, with a clynical picture of 16 years of evolution which began with anxiety symptoms, excessive concern about trivial events, as well as difficulty in planning and decision making. In the last 3 years, there is evidence of social isolation, difficulty in finding words and decreased verbal fluency; he omits connectors in the grammatical composition in association with ritualistic, stereotyped and perseverative behavior (makes several paintings from the same photograph).

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Lymphoepithelioma-Like Carcinoma of the Lung: An Unusual Case and Literature Review

Case Reports in Pulmonology ◽

10.1155/2013/143405 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2013 ◽

pp. 1-4 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yuan-Chun Huang ◽

Ching Hsueh ◽

Shang-Yun Ho ◽

Chiung-Ying Liao

Keyword(s):

Computed Tomography ◽

Decision Making ◽

Unusual Case ◽

Clinical Decision Making ◽

Clinical Decision ◽

Shortness Of Breath ◽

Lung Mass ◽

Postoperative Adjuvant Chemotherapy ◽

Chest Computed Tomography ◽

Initial Symptoms

We described a case of lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma (LELC) of the lung of a 65-year-old man with initial symptoms of intermittent chest pain and mild shortness of breath for 2 weeks. A right-lung mass was noted on chest computed tomography (CT) scan and was proved histopathologically as LELC of lung after video-assisted thorascopic lobectomy. He was successfully treated with lobectomy with postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy and is alive without signs of recurrence for 36 months after the diagnosis. It is important for clinicians, pathologists, and radiologists to understand the clinical, pathological, and radiological presentations of this neoplasm to avoid improper clinical decision making and misdiagnosis.

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HOW LONG CAN YOU ENJOY BLACKJACK WITH 100 CHIPS?

International Journal of Modern Physics C ◽

10.1142/s0129183111016804 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 22 (10) ◽

pp. 1161-1171

Author(s):

TAO YANG ◽

QIANQIAN LI ◽

XINGANG XIA ◽

ERBO ZHAO ◽

GUO LIU ◽

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Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Random Walk ◽

Power Law ◽

Risk Taking ◽

Real World ◽

Power Law Distribution ◽

Related Research ◽

Fat Tail ◽

Playing Time ◽

Pathologic Gambling

Gambling-related research has implications in financial area understandings and applications. Researches in this area usually focus on pathology, risk-taking, decision-making and addiction. Few works have been done to demonstrate the distribution of the playing time before players go bankrupt. One problem is that it is difficult to get statistics in real world gambling. In this paper, we do simulations in a Blackjack game with a selected strategy. We find the distribution of playing time before players lose a certain amount of money as a power law distribution, indicating the existence of very long playing time players. We also find that double is the most important factor that causes the fat tail. Comparison shows that when removing double, split and three to two payoff, Blackjack goes back to a random walk. The increase of the number of decks somewhat decreases the average playing time. Our results may have pathologic gambling intervention implications.

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Fuzzy Multi-Attribute Decision Making (FMADM) Application on Decision Support Systems (SPK) to Diagnose a Type of Disease

10.5772/intechopen.94614 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Sugiyarto Surono ◽

Mustika Sari

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Decision Support ◽

Decision Support System ◽

Support System ◽

Diagnostic Errors ◽

Initial Symptoms ◽

Total Integral ◽

Multi Attribute Decision Making ◽

Simple Additive Weighting ◽

Two Stages

Fuzzy logic is widely applied to daily life with various methods. One method is fuzzy multi-attribute decision making (FMADM). FMADM is able to select the best alternative from a number of alternatives. In FMADM there is a supporting method so that the results obtained are accurate and optimal, namely the classic MADM method. One method in classic MADM is the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) method. The SAW method is precisely used to minimize diagnostic errors, but if a decision support system is made, the SAW method still requires a further development method, one of which is the FMADM method with its development. The purposes of this study are to describe the steps of SAW method and the development of FDM in theory, implement SAW method and the development of FDM to diagnose a type of disease and implement it in a decision support system using GUI matlab. The completion step of those two methods is through two stages, the first one will go through FMADM stage with SAW, which is weighted sum, then the output will be used as input to the FDM method based on total integral values. The result of this study is proven by patient experienced initial symptoms of high fever at a temperature of 39.5° C - 40° C, very much spots appear in rumple leed test (> 50 petheciae), bleeding gums, rarely got nausea and headache, as well as diarrhea. Accuracy for the decision support system using MAPE was obtained 93% so that the decision support system with FMADM method to diagnose the disease was feasible to use.

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Effect of executive functioning, decision-making and self-reported impulsivity on the treatment outcome of pathologic gambling

Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience ◽

10.1503/jpn.090095 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 36 (3) ◽

pp. 165-175 ◽

Cited By ~ 53

Author(s):

Eva Álvarez-Moya

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Treatment Outcome ◽

Executive Functioning ◽

Pathologic Gambling

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Discarding optimality: Throwing out the baby with the bathwater?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x18001401 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 41 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Patrick Simen ◽

Fuat Balcı

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Perceptual Decision Making ◽

Reward Rate ◽

Perceptual Decision ◽

Standard Observer ◽

Rate Maximization ◽

Reward Rate Maximization ◽

Descriptive Standard ◽

Observer Model

AbstractRahnev & Denison (R&D) argue against normative theories and in favor of a more descriptive “standard observer model” of perceptual decision making. We agree with the authors in many respects, but we argue that optimality (specifically, reward-rate maximization) has proved demonstrably useful as a hypothesis, contrary to the authors’ claims.

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LPCD framework: Analytical tool or psychological model?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x18001383 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 41 ◽

Author(s):

David Danks

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Analytical Tool ◽

Mathematical Framework ◽

Bayesian Decision ◽

Perceptual Decision Making ◽

Psychological Model ◽

Psychological Reality ◽

Psychological Theories ◽

Target Article ◽

Bayesian Decision Making

AbstractThe target article uses a mathematical framework derived from Bayesian decision making to demonstrate suboptimal decision making but then attributes psychological reality to the framework components. Rahnev & Denison's (R&D) positive proposal thus risks ignoring plausible psychological theories that could implement complex perceptual decision making. We must be careful not to slide from success with an analytical tool to the reality of the tool components.

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Elaborating the role of reflection and individual differences in the study of folk-economic beliefs

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x18000274 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 41 ◽

Author(s):

Kevin Arceneaux

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Individual Differences ◽

Cognitive Processes ◽

Evolutionary History ◽

Behavioral Responses ◽

History Of ◽

Economic Beliefs

AbstractIntuitions guide decision-making, and looking to the evolutionary history of humans illuminates why some behavioral responses are more intuitive than others. Yet a place remains for cognitive processes to second-guess intuitive responses – that is, to be reflective – and individual differences abound in automatic, intuitive processing as well.

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