Impulsive Mechanisms Influencing Relapse in Alcohol Drinking

Impulsivity has been related to different features of addictive behaviors. Growing data, generated in separated lines of research, suggest that different processes underlying impulsivity are associated to relapse in alcohol drinking. Considering the evidence, relapse can be understood as an impulsive choice or as an impulsive action. In the first case, the return to drinking behavior is a consequence of insensitive to delayed consequence, that is, to the discounting of delayed rewards. In the second case, relapse is a consequence of failures to inhibit prepotent responses.

Source: Medical Hypotheses - January 15, 2018 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Hugo E. Reyes-Huerta, Cristiano dos Santos, Kalina Mart ínez Source Type: research