Early environmental experience alters baseline and ethanol-induced cognitive impulsivity: relationship to forebrain 5-HT1A receptor binding

KGC Hellemans, JN Nobrega, MC Olmstead - Behavioural brain research, 2005 - Elsevier
The relationship between impulsivity and drug abuse is poorly understood despite evidence
that impulsive behaviour both predicts, and is a consequence of, drug use. Moreover …

Reinforcer pathology: implications for substance abuse intervention

WK Bickel, LN Athamneh, SE Snider, WH Craft… - Recent advances in …, 2020 - Springer
The rate at which individuals discount future rewards (ie, discounting rate) is strongly
associated with their propensity for substance abuse as well as myriad other negative health …

Impulsivity as a vulnerability marker for substance-use disorders: review of findings from high-risk research, problem gamblers and genetic association studies

A Verdejo-García, AJ Lawrence, L Clark - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2008 - Elsevier
There is a longstanding association between substance-use disorders (SUDs) and the
psychological construct of impulsivity. In the first section of this review, personality and …

Self-administered cocaine causes long-lasting increases in impulsive choice in a delay discounting task.

IA Mendez, NW Simon, N Hart, MR Mitchell… - Behavioral …, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
Cocaine use is associated with high levels of impulsive choice (preference for immediate
over delayed rewards), but it is not clear whether cocaine use causes elevated impulsive …

Effects of selective dopaminergic compounds on a delay-discounting task

MN Koffarnus, AH Newman, P Grundt… - Behavioural …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Impulsivity is widely regarded as a multidimensional trait that encompasses two or more
distinct patterns of behavior, and dopaminergic systems are implicated in the expression of …