Eleanor M Taylor, Anna Murphy, Venkat Boyapati, Karen D Ersche, Remy Flechais, Shankar Kuchibatla, John McGonigle, Anotonio Metastasio, Liam Nestor, Csaba Orban, Fillippo Passetti, Louise Paterson, Dana Smith, John Suckling, Roger Tait, Anne R Lingford-Hughes, Trevor W Robbins, David J Nutt, J F William Deakin, Rebecca Elliott
RATIONALE: Dependence on drugs and alcohol is associated with impaired impulse control, but deficits are rarely compared across individuals dependent on different substances using several measures within a single study. OBJECTIVES: We investigated impulsivity in abstinent substance-dependent individuals (AbD) using three complementary techniques: self-report, neuropsychological and neuroimaging. We hypothesised that AbDs would show increased impulsivity across modalities, and that this would depend on length of abstinence...
April 2016: Psychopharmacology