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A Developmental Perspective on Facets of Impulsivity and Brain Activity Correlates From Adolescence to Adulthood

Published on - Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

Authors: Anna Kaiser, Nathalie Holz, Tobias Banaschewski, Sarah Baumeister, Arun Bokde, Sylvane Desrivières, Herta Flor, Juliane Fröhner, Antoine Grigis, Hugh Garavan, Penny Gowland, Andreas Heinz, Bernd Ittermann, Jean-Luc Martinot, Marie-Laure Paillère Martinot, Eric Artiges, Sabina Millenet, Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos, Luise Poustka, Emanuel Schwarz, Michael Smolka, Henrik Walter, Robert Whelan, Gunter Schumann, Daniel Brandeis, Frauke Nees, Arun L.W. Bokde, Gareth Barker, Arun L.W. Bokde, Rüdiger Brühl, Herve Lemaitre, Tomáš Paus, Sarah Hohmann, Lauren Robinson, Jeanne Winterer

On a theoretical level, impulsivity represents a multidimensional construct associated with acting without foresight, inefficient inhibitory response control, and alterations in reward processing. On an empirical level, relationships and changes in associations between different measures of impulsivity from adolescence into young adulthood and their relation to neural activity during inhibitory control and reward anticipation have not been fully understood.