ArticleBrain and cognition2019
Reinforcer pathology: Common neural substrates for delay discounting and snack purchasing in prediabetics.
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- Providing Buffers, Solving Barriers: Value-Driven Policies and Actions that Protect Clients Today and Increase the Chances of Thriving Tomorrow.Behavior analysis in practice · 2025Article
- The Use of Nonmonetary Outcomes in Health-Related Delay Discounting Research: Review and Recommendations.Perspectives on behavior science · 2024Review
- Tunneling, cognitive load and time orientation and their relations with dietary behavior of people experiencing financial scarcity - an AI-assisted scoping review elaborating on scarcity theory.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Article
- Putting prospection into practice: Methodological considerations in the use of episodic future thinking to reduce delay discounting and maladaptive health behaviors.Frontiers in public health · 2022Review
- Food reinforcement and habituation to food are processes related to initiation and cessation of eating.Physiology & behavior · 2021Review
- Reinforcer pathology II: Reward magnitude, reward delay, and demand for alcohol collectively relate to college students' alcohol related problems.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2020Article
- A Reinforcer Pathology perspective on relapse.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2020Article
- A meta-analysis of neural systems underlying delay discounting: Implications for transdiagnostic research.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)Article
- Delay Discounting, Glycemic Regulation and Health Behaviors in Adults with Prediabetes.Behavioral medicine (Washington, D.C.)Article
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Abstract
Reinforcer pathology theory stipulates that individuals with both (a) high preference for smaller, immediate over larger, delayed rewards; and (b) high demand for unhealthy commodities are uniquely susceptible to poor health outcomes. Specifically, two behavioral economic tasks (delay discounting, assessing preference for smaller, immediate or larger, delayed rewards; and purchasing, assessing purchases of commodities over changes in price) have been independently associated with conditions such as overweight/obesity and problem substance use. In the present study, we examined possible shared neural regions involved in the processes of delay discounting and demand for snack foods in a prediabetic sample. Fifty-four participants completed both of these tasks. Conjunction between delay discounting and purchasing task results indicates substantial common neural substrates recruited during these two tasks, consistent with interpretations of executive control, interoception, and attention, in the prefrontal cortex, insula, and frontoparietal cortex (superior/middle frontal cortex and superior/inferior parietal lobules), respectively. Collectively, these results suggest possible neural substrates in which the two behavioral risk factors of reinforcer pathology may interact during real-world decision-making in prediabetes.
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