TY - JOUR A1 - Clark, JE A1 - Watson, S A1 - Friston, KJ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291718000430 SN - 1469-8978 N2 - The neurobiological understanding of mood, and by extension mood disorders, remains elusive despite decades of research implicating several neuromodulator systems. This review considers a new approach based on existing theories of functional brain organisation. The free energy principle (a.k.a. active inference), and its instantiation in the Bayesian brain, offers a complete and simple formulation of mood. It has been proposed that emotions reflect the precision of ? or certainty about ? the predicted sensorimotor/interoceptive consequences of action. By extending this reasoning, in a hierarchical setting, we suggest mood states act as (hyper) priors over uncertainty (i.e. emotions). Here, we consider the same computational pathology in the proprioceptive and interoceptive (behavioural and autonomic) domain in order to furnish an explanation for mood disorders. This formulation reconciles several strands of research at multiple levels of enquiry. VL - 48 AV - public EP - 2284 ID - discovery10048537 SP - 2277 N1 - © Cambridge University Press 2018 This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Y1 - 2018/10// IS - 14 TI - What is mood? A computational perspective JF - Psychological Medicine ER -