The ability to make decisions and act quickly without hesitation can be advantageous in
many settings. However, when persistently expressed, impulsive decisions and actions are …

Addictions are often characterized as forms of impulsive behavior. That said, it is often noted
that impulsivity is a multidimensional construct, spanning several psychological domains …

Drug addiction is a neuropsychiatric disorder with grave personal consequences that has an
extraordinary global economic impact. Despite decades of research, the options available to …

Sensation-seeking (SS) is a personality trait that refers to individual differences in motivation
for intense and unusual sensory experiences. It describes a facet of human behaviour that …

Abstract Sensing, communication, navigation, decision-making, memory and learning are
key components in a standard cognitive tool-kit that enhance an animal's ability to …

Gambling is pertinent to neuroscience research for at least two reasons. First, gambling is a
naturalistic and pervasive example of risky decision making, and thus gambling games can …

Maladaptive decision-making is increasingly recognized to play a significant role in
numerous psychiatric disorders, such that therapeutics capable of ameliorating core …

There are broad individual differences in the ability to voluntarily and effortfully suppress
motivated, reward-seeking behaviors, and this review presents the hypothesis that these …

For centuries, humans have contemplated the minds of gods. Research on religious
cognition is spread across sub‐disciplines, making it difficult to gain a complete …

This article reviews recent advances in the elucidation of neurobehavioral endophenotypes
associated with drug addiction made possible by the translational neuroimaging techniques …