Researchers Explain How Brain Stops Us from Being Impulsive
Researchers have found that your feelings about something and the value you put on it are calculated similarly in a specific area of the brain.
Researchers have found that your feelings about something and the value you put on it are calculated similarly in a specific area of the brain.
‘Being impulsive is an inherited trait. Identifying the delay discounting genes and the proteins they code for, will play an important part in understanding the basis addictions and other psychiatric disorders that involve impulsive decision-making.’
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During the study, the team found that delay discounting gradually improves as teens get older, such that 18 year old teens have a greater ability or tendency to wait for the larger delayed reward, as compared to younger teens.
Dr. Anokhin said, "While it is tantalizing to speculate that the associations between delay discounting and serotonin-related genes may ultimately point the way to new treatments for addictions and other disorders involving impulsive choice, it is very early to link this speculation to a clinical application."
The research is published in Neuropsychopharmacology.
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