SynthesisBiological psychiatry2014
Remember the future II: meta-analyses and functional overlap of working memory and delay discounting.
Synthesis in Biological psychiatry, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05879198 (Train Your Brain), which is not on this map. Cited by 123 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Train Your Brain: A Pilot Project to Improve Memory and Decision Making to Improve Outcomes Among Youth
Who cites it
123 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 204 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cognitive Correlates of Risky Decision-Making in Individuals with and without ADHD: A Meta-analysis.Neuropsychology review · 2025Pooled it
- Cognitive Effects Following Offline High-Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (HF-rTMS) in Healthy Populations: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Neuropsychology review · 2024Pooled it
- How the harm of drugs and their availability affect brain reactions to drug cues: a meta-analysis of 64 neuroimaging activation studies.Translational psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- Common and separable neural alterations in substance use disorders: A coordinate-based meta-analyses of functional neuroimaging studies in humans.Human brain mapping · 2020Pooled it
- Spatial migration of human reward processing with functional development: Evidence from quantitative meta-analyses.Human brain mapping · 2020Pooled it
- Review of the Neural Processes of Working Memory Training: Controlling the Impulse to Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- Behavioral trainings and manipulations to reduce delay discounting: A systematic review.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2019Pooled it
- Neuropsychological Interventions for Decision-Making in Addiction: a Systematic Review.Neuropsychology review · 2019Pooled it
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- Examining the effects of varenicline and naltrexone on delay discounting among individuals with alcohol use disorder.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2025Trial
- Moxibustion modulates working memory in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan · 2023Trial
- Working Memory Training Reduces Cigarette Smoking Among Low-Income Individuals With Elevated Delay Discounting.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2022Trial
- A story to tell: the role of narratives in reducing delay discounting for people who strongly discount the future.Memory (Hove, England) · 2021Trial
- Improvement of Working Memory is a Mechanism for Reductions in Delay Discounting Among Mid-Age Individuals in an Urban Medically Underserved Area.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2019Trial
- Rescuing cognitive and emotional regulatory skills to aid smoking prevention in at-risk youth: A randomized trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2018Trial
- Cognitive control training for emotion-related impulsivity.Behaviour research and therapy · 2018Trial
- Partial sleep deprivation impacts impulsive action but not impulsive decision-making.Physiology & behavior · 2016Trial
- Intra-individual changes in Stroop-related activations linked to cigarette abstinence in adolescent tobacco smokers: Preliminary findings.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2016Trial
- A Randomised Controlled Trial of Neuronavigated Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) in Anorexia Nervosa.PloS one · 2016Trial
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Abstract
Previously we showed that working memory training decreased the discounting of future rewards in stimulant addicts without affecting a go/no-go task. While a relationship between delay discounting and working memory is consistent with other studies, the unique brain regions of plausible causality between these two abilities have yet to be determined. Activation likelihood estimation meta-analyses were performed on foci from studies of delay discounting (DD = 449), working memory (WM = 452), finger tapping (finger tapping = 450), and response inhibition (RI = 450). Activity maps from relatively less (finger tapping) and more (RI) demanding executive tasks were contrasted with maps of DD and WM. Overlap analysis identified unique functional coincidence between DD and WM. The anterior cingulate cortex was engaged by all tasks. Finger tapping largely engaged motor-related brain areas. In addition to motor-related areas, RI engaged frontal brain regions. The right lateral prefrontal cortex was engaged by RI, DD, and WM and was contrasted out of overlap maps. A functional cluster in the posterior portion of the left lateral prefrontal cortex emerged as the largest location of unique overlap between DD and WM. A portion of the left lateral prefrontal cortex is a unique location where delay discounting and working memory processes overlap in the brain. This area, therefore, represents a therapeutic target for improving behaviors that rely on the integration of the recent past with the foreseeable future.
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