Conditioned Hallucinations and Prior Overweighting Are State-Sensitive Markers 
of Hallucination Susceptibility

Kafadar, Eren; Fisher, Victoria L.; Quagan, Brittany; Hammer, Allison; Jaeger, Hale; Mourgues, Catalina; Thomas, Rigi; Chen, Linda; Imtiaz, Ayyub; Sibarium, Ely; Negreira, Alyson M.; Sarisik, Elif; Polisetty, Vasishta; Benrimoh, David; Sheldon, Andrew D.; Lim, Chris; Mathys, Christoph; Powers, Albert R.

doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.05.007

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Conditioned Hallucinations and Prior Overweighting Are State-Sensitive Markers of Hallucination Susceptibility

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Sarisik, Elif
Max Planck Fellow Group Precision Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Max Planck Society;
IMPRS Translational Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Max Planck Society;

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Kafadar, E., Fisher, V. L., Quagan, B., Hammer, A., Jaeger, H., Mourgues, C., et al. (2022). Conditioned Hallucinations and Prior Overweighting Are State-Sensitive Markers of Hallucination Susceptibility. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, 92(10), 772-780. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.05.007.

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BACKGROUND: Recent advances in computational psychiatry have identified latent cognitive and perceptual states that predispose to psychotic symptoms. Behavioral data fit to Bayesian models have demonstrated an overreliance on priors (i.e., prior overweighting) during perception in select samples of individuals with hallucinations, corre-sponding to increased precision of prior expectations over incoming sensory evidence. However, the clinical utility of this observation depends on the extent to which it reflects static symptom risk or current symptom state.METHODS: To determine whether task performance and estimated prior weighting relate to specific elements of symptom expression, a large, heterogeneous, and deeply phenotyped sample of hallucinators (n = 249) and non -hallucinators (n = 209) performed the conditioned hallucination (CH) task.RESULTS: We found that CH rates predicted stable measures of hallucination status (i.e., peak frequency). However, CH rates were more sensitive to hallucination state (i.e., recent frequency), significantly correlating with recent hallucination severity and driven by heightened reliance on past experiences (priors). To further test the sensitivity of CH rate and prior weighting to symptom severity, a subset of participants with hallucinations (n = 40) performed a repeated-measures version of the CH task. Changes in both CH frequency and prior weighting varied with changes in auditory hallucination frequency on follow-up.CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that CH rate and prior overweighting are state markers of hallucination status, potentially useful in tracking disease development and treatment response.