Impulsive Behavior

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Frontal systems" behaviors in comorbid human immunodeficiency virus infection and methamphetamine dependency. 
  • A formal cognitive model of the go/no-go discrimination task: evaluation and implications. 
  • Adolescent aggression and social cognition in the context of personality: impulsivity as a moderator of predictions from social information processing. 
  • Adolescent alcohol use disrupts functional neurodevelopment in sensation seeking girls. 
  • An analogue investigation of the relationships among perceived parental criticism, negative affect, and borderline personality disorder features: the role of thought suppression. 
  • Anger, impulsivity and wall/object punching in a sample of U.S. veterans with psychiatric disorders. 
  • Around the world, adolescence is a time of heightened sensation seeking and immature self-regulation. 
  • Assessment of conceptual tempo in the type A (coronary prone) behavior pattern. 
  • Association of HIV serostatus and metabolic syndrome with neurobehavioral disturbances. 
  • Caudate asymmetry is related to attentional impulsivity and an objective measure of ADHD-like attentional problems in healthy adults. 
  • Characterization of a semi-rapid method for assessing delay discounting in rodents. 
  • Cocaine-related alterations in fronto-parietal gray matter volume correlate with trait and behavioral impulsivity. 
  • Cognitive Testing to Identify Children With ADHD Who Do and Do Not Respond to Methylphenidate. 
  • Deconstructing the externalizing spectrum: Growth patterns of overt aggression, covert aggression, oppositional behavior, impulsivity/inattention and emotion dysregulation between school entry and early adolescence 
  • Delay discounting is associated with substance use in college students. 
  • Delay of gratification, psychopathology, and personality: is low self-control specific to externalizing problems? 
  • Distinct neural circuits support incentivized inhibition. 
  • Dopamine agonists and the suppression of impulsive motor actions in Parkinson disease. 
  • Early Environmental Unpredictability: Implications for Youth's Perceptions and Social Functioning. 
  • Economic theory and evidence on smoking behavior of adults. 
  • Efficacy of guanfacine extended release in the treatment of combined and inattentive only subtypes of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. 
  • Emotion suppression in borderline personality disorder: an experience sampling study. 
  • Explaining the relation between IQ and delinquency: class, race, test motivation, school failure, or self-control? 
  • Externalizing psychopathology from childhood to early adolescence: Psychometric evaluation using latent variable and network modeling. 
  • Facial expressions of emotion and psychopathology in adolescent boys. 
  • Factor structure of parent- and teacher-rated attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms in the Preschoolers with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Treatment Study (PATS). 
  • Findings from the Pittsburgh Youth Study: cognitive impulsivity and intelligence as predictors of the age-crime curve. 
  • General anesthetic exposure in adolescent rats causes persistent maladaptations in cognitive and affective behaviors and neuroplasticity. 
  • Genetic variation in components of dopamine neurotransmission impacts ventral striatal reactivity associated with impulsivity. 
  • Guns, Impulsive Angry Behavior, and Mental Disorders: Results from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R). 
  • Imaging genetics and the neurobiological basis of individual differences in vulnerability to addiction. 
  • Impulsivity and genetic variants in DRD2 and ANKK1 moderate longitudinal associations between sleep problems and overweight from ages 5 to 11. 
  • Impulsivity and suicide. 
  • Impulsivity and the Modular Organization of Resting-State Neural Networks 
  • Impulsivity as a common process across borderline personality and substance use disorders. 
  • Increases in impulsivity following smoking abstinence are related to baseline nicotine intake and boredom susceptibility. 
  • Is Toxoplasma Gondii Infection Related to Brain and Behavior Impairments in Humans? Evidence from a Population-Representative Birth Cohort. 
  • Is it the inventory, the meta-analysis, or the construct? Reply to the comments on Marcus, Fulton, and Edens. 
  • Lead and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms: a meta-analysis. 
  • MacAndrew Addiction Scale and other MMPI characteristics associated with obesity, anorexia and smoking behavior. 
  • Male mental health problems, psychopathy, and personality traits: key findings from the first 14 years of the Pittsburgh Youth Study. 
  • Mapping the Growth of Heterogeneous Forms of Externalizing Problem Behavior Between Early Childhood and Adolescence:A Comparison of Parent and Teacher Ratings. 
  • Measuring impulsivity and examining its relationship to delinquency. 
  • Neuropsychological correlates of self-reported impulsivity and informant-reported maladaptive behaviour among veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury history. 
  • On the meaning of meaning when being mean: commentary on Berkowitz's "on the consideration of automatic as well as controlled psychological processes in aggression". 
  • Periconceptional Maternal Diet Characterized by High Glycemic Loading Is Associated with Offspring Behavior in NEST. 
  • Personality Structure Among Centenarians: The Georgia Centenarian Study. 
  • Personality and sexual risk taking: a quantitative review. 
  • Pre-treatment measures of impulsivity, aggression and sensation seeking are associated with treatment outcome for African-American cocaine-dependent patients. 
  • Predictive accuracy in the neuroprediction of rearrest. 
  • Preference for immediate over delayed rewards is associated with magnitude of ventral striatal activity. 
  • Puberty Predicts Approach But Not Avoidance on the Iowa Gambling Task in a Multinational Sample. 
  • Reward and executive control network resting-state functional connectivity is associated with impulsivity during reward-based decision making for cocaine users. 
  • Suboptimal foraging behavior: a new perspective on gambling. 
  • Suicidal Behavior and Problems with Emotion Regulation. 
  • The Role of Emotion-Driven Impulse Control Difficulties in the Relation Between Social Anxiety and Aggression. 
  • The behavioral economics of drunk driving. 
  • The child is father of the man: personality continuities from childhood to adulthood. 
  • The dopamine D4 receptor and the hyperactivity phenotype: a developmental-epidemiological study. 
  • The effects of brain serotonin deficiency on behavioural disinhibition and anxiety-like behaviour following mild early life stress. 
  • The effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy on depression, anger, and self-control for Korean soldiers. 
  • The interaction between impulsivity and neighborhood context on offending: the effects of impulsivity are stronger in poorer neighborhoods. 
  • The neural signatures of distinct psychopathic traits 
  • The two-factor model of psychopathic personality: evidence from the psychopathic personality inventory. 
  • Tryptophan degradation is associated with risk-taking propensity in methamphetamine users with treated HIV infection. 
  • Ventral striatal dopamine transporter availability is associated with lower trait motor impulsivity in healthy adults. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, Chauncey Stillman Distinguished Professor of Practical Ethics, Duke Science & Society