Delay discounting, impulsiveness, and addiction severity in opioid-dependent patients

Impulsiveness in Alcohol Addiction and Pathological Gambling

Correspondence to: Davor Bodor, md, Psychiatric hospital “Sveti Ivan”, Jankomir 11, 10090 Zagreb, Croatia, E-mail: [email protected] Copyright © 2015 KBCSM, Zagreb e-mail: [email protected] • www.http//hrcak.srce.hr/acoholism Summary: Numerous conducted studies, as well as the daily clinical experience, proves the importance of the role that impulsiveness plays in the clinical cours...

Impulsiveness without discounting: the ecological rationality hypothesis.

Observed animal impulsiveness challenges ideas from foraging theory about the fitness value of food rewards, and may play a role in important behavioural phenomena such as cooperation and addiction. Behavioural ecologists usually invoke temporal discounting to explain the evolution of animal impulsiveness. According to the discounting hypothesis, delay reduces the fitness value of the delayed f...

MODELING DELAY DISCOUNTING 1 Modeling Choices in Delay Discounting

Delay discounting in schizophrenia.

BACKGROUND It is well known that individuals with schizophrenia have dopaminergic abnormalities as well as memory-related difficulties, both of which are associated with impulsive decision making. We used a delay discounting measure to test the degree to which patients make future-oriented decisions. METHODS 42 patients with schizophrenia and 29 healthy participants completed a delay discount...

Post-operative Analgesia in Opioid Dependent Patients: Comparison of ‎Intravenous Morphine and Sublingual Buprenorphine

Background: Acute and chronic pain is prevalent in patients with opioid dependence. Lack of knowledge concerning the complex relationship between pain, opioid use, and withdrawal syndrome can account for the barriers encountered for pain management. This study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of sublingual (SL) buprenorphine for post-operative analgesia, compared with intravenous (IV) morp...