Ditte Høier Frantzen

My main interest in neuroscience is decision-making in neurological and psychiatric disorders. In my PhD project, I will investigate the role of the dopamine system in reward-based learning in healthy adults and in patients with Parkinson’s disease. I will probe reward- and movement-related brain activity with fMRI and test a newly proposed theory of distributional reinforcement learning with computational modeling and novel imaging analysis techniques. The overarching aim is to improve our current understanding of the human dopamine system and explain a range of motor and cognitive symptoms in Parkinson’s disease.