SynthesisClinical psychology review2011
Genetic and environmental influences on impulsivity: a meta-analysis of twin, family and adoption studies.
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72 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- A Systematic Review on the Influences of Neurotoxicological Xenobiotic Compounds on Inhibitory Control.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2019Pooled it
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- Genetic influences for distinct impulsivity domains are differentially associated with early substance use initiation: Results from the ABCD Study.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Binge drinking trajectories across adolescence and early adulthood: Associations with genetic influences for dual-systems impulsive personality traits, alcohol consumption, and alcohol use disorder.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2025Article
- The Effect of a Structured and Progressive Rhythmiccognitive Dual-task Exercise Program on Impulsivity in Children With ADHD.Basic and clinical neuroscience · 2025Article
- Genome-Wide Association Studies of Delay Discounting and Impulsive Personality Traits in Children From the Adolescent Behavior and Cognitive Development Study.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2025Article
- Genomic structural equation modeling of impulsivity and risk-taking traits reveals three latent factors distinctly associated with brain structure and development.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Neural indices of heritable impulsivity: Impact of the COMT Val158Met polymorphism on frontal beta power during early motor preparation.Biological psychology · 2024Article
- The Androgen Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate Shows a Greater Relationship with Impulsivity than Testosterone in a Healthy Male Sample.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Dual-systems models of the genetic architecture of impulsive personality traits: neurogenetic evidence of distinct but related factors.Psychological medicine · 2024Article
- Trait Impulsivity as a Feature of Parkinson's Disease Treatment and Progression.Parkinson's disease · 2024Review
- Negative and positive urgency as pathways in the intergenerational transmission of suicide risk in childhood.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Thinking about neither death nor poverty affects delay discounting, but episodic foresight does: Three replications of the effects of priming on time preferences.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2023Article
- Do Poor Diet and Lifestyle Behaviors Modify the Genetic Susceptibility to Impulsivity in the General Population?Nutrients · 2023Article
- Shared genetic liability for alcohol consumption, alcohol problems, and suicide attempt: Evaluating the role of impulsivity.Translational psychiatry · 2023Article
- How childhood maltreatment alters perception and cognition - the predictive processing account of borderline personality disorder.Psychological medicine · 2022Review
- Gray matter volumetric correlates of dimensional impulsivity traits in children: Sex differences and heritability.Human brain mapping · 2022Article
- Economic and social deprivation predicts impulsive choice in children.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
A meta-analysis of twin, family and adoption studies was conducted to estimate the magnitude of genetic and environmental influences on impulsivity. The best fitting model for 41 key studies (58 independent samples from 14 month old infants to adults; N=27,147) included equal proportions of variance due to genetic (0.50) and non-shared environmental (0.50) influences, with genetic effects being both additive (0.38) and non-additive (0.12). Shared environmental effects were unimportant in explaining individual differences in impulsivity. Age, sex, and study design (twin vs. adoption) were all significant moderators of the magnitude of genetic and environmental influences on impulsivity. The relative contribution of genetic effects (broad sense heritability) and unique environmental effects were also found to be important throughout development from childhood to adulthood. Total genetic effects were found to be important for all ages, but appeared to be strongest in children. Analyses also demonstrated that genetic effects appeared to be stronger in males than in females. Method of assessment (laboratory tasks vs. questionnaires), however, was not a significant moderator of the genetic and environmental influences on impulsivity. These results provide a structured synthesis of existing behavior genetic studies on impulsivity by providing a clearer understanding of the relative genetic and environmental contributions in impulsive traits through various stages of development.
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