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The genetics of impulsivity: evidence for the heritability of delay discounting.
Biological psychiatry - 15 May 2015
Anokhin Andrey P, Grant Julia D, Mulligan Richard C, Heath Andrew C
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BACKGROUND: Delay discounting (DD), a decline in the subjective value of reward with increasing delay until its receipt, is an established behavioral model of impulsive choice, a key component of a broader impulsivity construct. Greater DD, i.e., a tendency to choose smaller immediate over larger delayed rewards, has been implicated as a potential intermediate phenotype (endophenotype) for addictive disorders and...
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