The Importance of Common Currency Tasks in Translational Psychiatry

Alexandra C. Pike; Millie Lowther; Oliver J. Robinson

doi:10.1007/s40473-021-00225-w

The Importance of Common Currency Tasks in Translational Psychiatry

Alexandra C. Pike^*
, Millie Lowther
, Oliver J. Robinson

^*Corresponding author for this work

Psychology

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Purpose of Review: Common currency tasks are tasks that investigate the same phenomenon in different species. In this review, we discuss how to ensure the translational validity of common currency tasks, summarise their benefits, present recent research in this area and offer future directions and recommendations. Recent Findings: We discuss the strengths and limitations of three specific examples where common currency tasks have added to our understanding of psychiatric constructs—affective bias, reversal learning and goal-based decision making. Summary: Overall, common currency tasks offer the potential to improve drug discovery in psychiatry. We recommend that researchers prioritise construct validity above face validity when designing common currency tasks and suggest that the evidence for construct validity is summarised in papers presenting research in this area.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-10
Number of pages	10
Journal	Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports
Volume	8
Issue number	1
Early online date	12 Feb 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s40473-021-00225-w
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2021

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Keywords

Animal models
Behavioural assay
Common currency tasks
Translational psychiatry
Translational tasks
Validity

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