The ability to make decisions and act quickly without hesitation can be advantageous in
many settings. However, when persistently expressed, impulsive decisions and actions are …

Alcohol has been associated with violent crimes and domestic violence across many
nations. Various etiological factors were linked to chronic alcohol use and violence including …

Successful goal-directed behavior requires not only correct action selection, planning, and
execution but also the ability to flexibly adapt behavior when performance problems occur or …

Impulsive people have a strong urge to act without thinking. It is sometimes regarded as a
positive trait but rash impulsiveness is also widely present in clinical disorders such as …

The concept of impulsivity covers a wide range of” actions that are poorly conceived,
prematurely expressed, unduly risky, or inappropriate to the situation and that often result in …

The serotonergic pathways originating in the dorsal and median raphe nuclei (DR and MnR,
respectively) are critically involved in cortical function. Serotonin (5-HT), acting on …

A coping style (also termed behavioural syndrome or personality) is defined as a correlated
set of individual behavioural and physiological characteristics that is consistent over time …

The prefrontal cortex has been implicated in a variety of cognitive and executive processes,
including working memory, decision-making, inhibitory response control, attentional set …

Rationale. The developmental history and application of the 5-choice serial reaction time
task (5CSRTT) for measuring effects of drugs and other manipulations on attentional …

Failures in cortical control of fronto-striatal neural circuits may underpin impulsive and
compulsive acts. In this narrative review, we explore these behaviors from the perspective of …