Fractionating impulsivity: Neuropsychiatric implications

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 158-171

  Dalley, Jeffrey W ^a,b   Robbins, Trevor W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BARRATT IMPULSIVENESS SCALE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITIVE BIAS; DECISION MAKING; DECISIONAL IMPULSIVITY; DELAY DISCOUNTING; DORSAL STRIATUM; DRUG DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MOTOR IMPULSIVITY; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS CORE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILISTIC DISCOUNTING; REFLECTION IMPULSIVITY; REVIEW; REWARD; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; VENTRAL STRIATUM; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; REWARD; RISK; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 85013321999     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn.2017.8     Document Type: Review

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