Humans and animals prefer immediate over delayed rewards (delay discounting). This
preference for smaller-but-sooner over larger-but-later rewards shows substantial …

Many decisions involve a trade-off between the quality of an outcome and the time at which
that outcome is received. In psychology and behavioral economics, the most widely studied …

A characteristic marker of impulsive decision making is the discounting of delayed rewards,
demonstrated via choice preferences and choice-related brain activity. However, delay …

Impulsivity and loss of self-control in drug-dependent patients have been associated with the
manner in which they discount delayed rewards. Although drugs of abuse have been shown …

The phenomenology of delay discounting (eg shape of the discount function; relation to
mental health) has been reviewed in detail previously, but not its neural substrates. Its …

Excessively devaluing delayed reinforcers co‐occurs with a wide variety of clinical
conditions such as drug dependence, obesity, and excessive gambling. If excessive delay …

Disordered dopamine neurotransmission is implicated in mediating impulsiveness across a
range of behaviors and disorders including addiction, compulsive gambling, attention …

Delay discounting describes the tendency to devalue delayed consequences or future
prospects. The degree to which an individual discounts delayed events appears trait-like in …

Although delay discounting, the attenuation of the value of future rewards, is a robust finding,
the mechanism of discounting is not known. We propose a potential mechanism for delay …

The National Institute of Mental Health launched the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC)
initiative to better understand dimensions of behavior and identify targets for treatment …