NEUROECONSOLUTIONS

We are a team of scientists committed to improve the understanding of how decisions are made in health care. We apply principles and strategies from behavioral economics and translate them into clinical practice... Emotions play a critical role in our daily decisions. However, it remains unclear how and what sortof emotional expressions are associated with therapeutic decisions in multiple sclerosis (MS) care. Our goal wasto evaluate the relationship between emotions and affective states (as captured by muscle facial activity andemotional expressions) and TI amongst neurologists caring for MS patients when making therapeutic decisions... Limited information is available on physician-related factors influencing therapeutic inertia (TI) in multiple sclerosis (MS). Our aim was to evaluate whether phy-sicians' risk preferences are associated with TI in MS care, by applying concepts from behavioral economics