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Steep Discounting of Future Rewards as an Impulsivity Phenotype: A Concise Review
This chapter provides an overview over the behavioral economic index of impulsivity known as delay discounting. Specifically, delay discounting...
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Probability discounting of treatment decisions in multiple sclerosis: associations with disease knowledge, neuropsychiatric status, and adherence
RationalePatients weigh risks and benefits when making treatment decisions. Despite this, relatively few studies examine the behavioral patterns...
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Heterogeneity in choice models of addiction: the role of context
RationaleTheories of addiction guide scientific progress, funding priorities, and policy development and ultimately shape how people experiencing or...
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Reinforcer Pathology: Implications for Substance Abuse Intervention
The rate at which individuals discount future rewards (i.e., discounting rate) is strongly associated with their propensity for substance abuse as...
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Evaluating non-medical prescription opioid demand using commodity purchase tasks: test-retest reliability and incremental validity
RationaleNon-medical prescription opioid use and opioid use disorder (OUD) present a significant public health concern. Identifying behavioral...
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No evidence of the clinical utility of single-item breakpoint to inform on tobacco demand in persons with substance use disorders
RationaleBehavioral economics has shown that single-item demand indicators are promising for capturing crucial aspects of nicotine reinforcement. It...
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Assessing Cannabis Demand: A Comprehensive Review of the Marijuana Purchase Task
The marijuana purchase task (MPT) is a behavioral economic measure of individualized cannabis value (i.e., demand). The MPT follows purchase tasks...
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Burden of Zoonoses
Livestock food systems are changing rapidly with increasingly complex, dynamic, and globally connected production, harvesting, distribution, and...
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Burden of Zoonoses
Livestock food systems are changing rapidly with increasingly complex, dynamic, and globally connected production, harvesting, distribution, and...
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Delay and probability discounting by drug-dependent cocaine and marijuana users
RationaleSteep discounting of delayed monetary rewards by substance-dependent individuals is well-established. Less is known, however, about...
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Evolution of the Emotional Brain
The brain systems and processing involved in emotion in vertebrates have evolved considerably. The way in which the primate orbitofrontal cortex has...
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Cost effectiveness of intermittent screening followed by treatment versus intermittent preventive treatment during pregnancy in West Africa: analysis and modelling of results from a non-inferiority trial
BackgroundEmergence of high-grade sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) resistance in parts of Africa has led to growing concerns about the efficacy of...
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Impulsivity and cigarette smoking: discounting of monetary and consumable outcomes in current and non-smokers
RationaleIn delay discounting, temporally remote rewards have less value. Cigarette smoking is associated with steeper discounting of delayed money....
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Economic Aspects of Zoonoses: Impact of Zoonoses on the Food Industry
The increase of complexity of livestock production and the associated value chains has led to changes in the food systems that feed us, which in turn...
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Altruism in time: social temporal discounting differentiates smokers from problem drinkers
RationaleRecent studies on reinforcer valuation in social situations have informed research on mental illness. Social temporal discounting may be a...
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Single- and cross-commodity discounting among cocaine addicts: the commodity and its temporal location determine discounting rate
RationaleIntertemporal choice has provided important insights into understanding addiction, predicted drug-dependence status, and outcomes of...
