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Emotional and non-emotional pathways to impulsive behavior and addiction.

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Torres, Ana, Catena, Andrés, Megías, Alberto, Maldonado, Antonio, Cándido, Antonio, Verdejo-García, Antonio, Perales, José C.·2013·Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

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Impulsivity is tightly linked to addiction. However, there are several pathways by means of which impulsive individuals are more prone to become addicts, or to suffer an addiction more intensely and for a longer period. One of those pathways involves an inadequate appraisal or regulation of positive and negative emotions, leading to lack of control over hazardous behaviors, and inappropriate decisions. In the present work, we assessed cocaine-dependent individuals (CDI; n = 20), pathological gamblers (PG; n = 21), and healthy controls (HC; n = 23) in trait impulsivity measures (UPPS-P model's dimensions), and decision-making tasks (Go/No-go; delay-discounting task). During the Go/No-go task, electroencephalographic (EEG) activity was recorded, and Go/No-go stimuli-evoked potentials (ERP) were extracted. Theory-driven ERP analyses focused on the No-go > Go difference in the N2 ERP. Our results show that negative urgency is one of the several psychological features that distinguish addicts from HC. Nevertheless, among the dimensions of trait impulsivity, negative urgency is unique at independently covarying with gambling over-pathologization in the PG sample. Cocaine-dependent individuals performed more poorly than gamblers in the Go/No-go task, and showed abnormal Go/No-go stimuli-evoked potentials. The difference between the No-go stimulus-evoked N2, and the Go one was attenuated by severity and intensity of chronic cocaine use. Emotional dimensions of impulsivity, however, did not influence Go/No-go performance.

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Authors
Torres, A., Catena, A., Megías, A., Maldonado, A., Cándido, A., Verdejo-García, A., & Perales, J. C.
Affiliations
Universidad de Granada (ES)
Corresponding author
Perales, José C.
Venue
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Published
2013
Volume
7
Pages
43-43
ISSN
1662-5161 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2022452786
Cited by
99
References
78
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FWCI
10.76
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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cc-by
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  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Institutional Repository of the University of Granada (University of Granada) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad (RD12/0028/0017)
  • Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
  • Junta de Andalucía (PB09-SEJ4752)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Gambling Behavior and Treatments
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
Keywords
impulsivity, addiction, cocaine dependence, gambling addiction, negative urgency, emotional impulsivity, decision-making, delay discounting, go/no-go task, N2 component, UPPS-P, emotion regulation, chronic cocaine use

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