NOW vs LATER brain circuits: implications for obesity and addiction

ND Volkow, RD Baler - Trends in neurosciences, 2015 - cell.com
Balancing behaviors that provide a reward NOW versus behaviors that provide an
advantage LATER is critical for survival. We propose a model in which dopamine (DA) can …

[HTML][HTML] Explaining socioeconomic disparities in health behaviours: A review of biopsychological pathways involving stress and inflammation

P Kraft, B Kraft - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The purpose of this article was to explore how individuals' position in a socioeconomic
hierarchy is related to health behaviours that are related to socioeconomic disparities in …

Deliberating trade-offs with the future

A Bulley, DL Schacter - Nature human behaviour, 2020 - nature.com
Many fundamental choices in life are intertemporal: they involve trade-offs between sooner
and later outcomes. In recent years there has been a surge of interest into how people make …

Gender-specific resting-state rDMPFC-centric functional connectivity underpinnings of intertemporal choice

C Lv, Z **ao, Y Sun, R Zhang, T Feng, O Turel… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Although studies have observed gender differences in intertemporal choice, the neural
bases of these differences require further research. The current study used resting state …

Impulsivity toward food reward is related to BMI: Evidence from intertemporal choice in obese and normal-weight individuals

S Schiff, P Amodio, G Testa, M Nardi, S Montagnese… - Brain and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Obesity is a medical condition frequently associated with psychopathological symptoms and
neurocognitive and/or personality traits related to impulsivity. Impulsivity during …

A meta-analysis of the effects of episodic future thinking on delay discounting

J Ye, Q Ding, J Cui, Z Liu, L Jia, X Qin… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Delay discounting (DD) refers to the phenomenon in which the subjective value of future
rewards is reduced over time. There are individual differences in the DD rate, and increased …

A meta-analysis of nonsystematic responding in delay and probability reward discounting.

KR Smith, SR Lawyer, JK Swift - Experimental and Clinical …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Delay discounting (DD) and probability discounting (PD) are behavioral measures of choice
that index sensitivity to delayed and probabilistic outcomes, which are associated with a …

The Cost of Imagined Actions in a Reward-Valuation Task

M Sellitto, D Terenzi, F Starita, G di Pellegrino… - Brain Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Growing evidence suggests that humans and other animals assign value to a stimulus
based not only on its inherent rewarding properties, but also on the costs of the action …

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over vmPFC modulates interactions between reward and emotion in delay discounting

AL Manuel, NWG Murray, O Piguet - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Delay discounting requires computing trade-offs between immediate-small rewards and
later-larger rewards. Negative and positive emotions shift decisions towards more or less …

Medial orbitofrontal cortex is associated with shifting decision thresholds in self-serving cognition

BL Hughes, JS Beer - NeuroImage, 2012 - Elsevier
Recent research has begun to identify neural regions associated with self-serving cognition,
that is, the tendency to make claims that cast the self in an overly flattering light, yet little is …