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Decision-making is one of the most important cognitive functions of humans and animals. We make hundreds of decisions every day, from the seemingly simple (e.g., what to eat for lunch) to the more complex (e.g., how to best allocate your time). Most of these decisions will be associated with their own costs and benefits (reward, time, probability, effort, etc) which collectively need evaluation and integration to determine each choice's overall value. However, that is only one side of the story... Our working philosophy is that to understand behavior in both health and disease, we must understand the anatomical networks and neural computations/mechanisms that support behavior. To accomplish this, we use a range of methodological approaches including electrophysiology (single neuron, local field potentials), human neuroimaging (fMRI, MEG), and biophysical and computational modeling such as reinforcement or machine learning. We also test causal links between these brain regions and..