In many circumstances alternative courses of action and thoughts have to be inhibited to
allow the emergence of goal-directed behavior. However, this has not been the accepted …

A better understanding of the neural systems underlying impulse control is important for
psychiatry. Although most impulses are motivational or emotional rather than motoric per se …

Inhibitory control describes the suppression of goal-irrelevant stimuli and behavioral
responses. Current developmental taxonomies distinguish between Response Inhibition …

Context Functional magnetic resonance imaging studies in attention-deficit/hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD) revealed fronto-striato-parietal dysfunctions during tasks of inhibition and …

Impulsivity and compulsivity represent useful conceptualizations that involve dissociable
cognitive functions, which are mediated by neuroanatomically and neurochemically distinct …

Response inhibition, defined as the ability to withhold a response, is considered to be a core
deficit in various mental illnesses. Measures of response inhibition have been used to define …

Although prefrontal cortex has been implicated in the cognitive regulation of emotion, the
cortical-subcortical interactions that mediate this ability remain poorly understood. To …

Response inhibition is a hallmark of executive control. The concept refers to the suppression
of actions that are no longer required or that are inappropriate, which supports flexible and …

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 …

Suppressing an already initiated manual response depends critically on the right inferior
frontal cortex (IFC), yet it is unclear how this inhibitory function is implemented in the motor …