Excessive discounting of delayed reinforcers as a trans-disease process contributing to addiction and other disease-related vulnerabilities: Emerging evidence

Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 287-297

  Bickel, Warren K ^a   Jarmolowicz, David P ^a   Mueller, E Terry ^a   Koffarnus, Mikhail N ^a   Gatchalian, Kirstin M ^a  

^a VIRGINIA TECH CARILION SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Delay discounting; Gambling; Health behaviors; Neuroscience; Obesity; Trans disease process

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; CYCLOSERINE; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; NORADRENALIN;

ADDICTION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; OVERNUTRITION; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING;

DECISION MAKING; GAMBLING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OBESITY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84859791750     PISSN: 01637258     EISSN: 1879016X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2012.02.004     Document Type: Review

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