ReviewBiological psychiatry2020
Impulsive Responses to Positive and Negative Emotions: Parallel Neurocognitive Correlates and Their Implications.
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- Anterior insula reactivity to loss moderates the association between trait impulsivity and future suicidal ideation in adolescents.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Investigating the relationship between physical activity, impulsivity and stress, anxiety, and depression in college students.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Variable Presence of an Evolutionarily New Brain Structure Is Related to Trait Impulsivity.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2026Article
- Neural Bases of Affect-Based Impulsivity: A Decision Neuroscience Account.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Review
- Sex/gender differences in orbitofrontal cortex reactivity underlying the associations between stress, social relationships, and problematic alcohol use.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Introducing the Glutamate-Amplifies-Noradrenergic-Effects (GANE) Model to the Neurocognitive Study of Emotion-Related Impulsivity.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- Cognitive-Affective Factors Linking Experiences of Daily Discrimination with Adult Psychopathology and Risky Health Behaviors.Journal of affective disorders · 2025Article
- Testing a Reward-Processing Model of Negative Urgency in Women With and Without Binge Eating.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- Executive functioning in matrescence and implications for perinatal depression.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- The Memory and Affective Flexibility Task: a new behavioral tool to assess neurocognitive processes implicated in emotion-related impulsivity and internalizing symptoms.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Emotion-related impulsivity is related to orbitofrontal cortical sulcation.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2024Article
- Variable Presence of an Evolutionarily New Brain Structure is Related to Trait Impulsivity.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- A sense of urgency: Trait impulsivity in co-occurring bipolar and alcohol use disorder.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2024Article
- Dual-systems models of the genetic architecture of impulsive personality traits: neurogenetic evidence of distinct but related factors.Psychological medicine · 2024Article
- The clinical significance of emotional urgency in bipolar disorder: a scoping review.BMC psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Theory about the conceptual basis of psychiatric disorders has long emphasized negative emotionality. More recent ideas emphasize roles for positive emotionality and impulsivity as well. This review examines impulsive responses to positive and negative emotions, which have been labeled as urgency. Urgency is conceptually and empirically distinct from other forms of impulsivity. A large body of work indicates that urgency is more robustly related to psychopathology than are other forms of impulsivity. Researchers have considered 4 neurocognitive models of urgency: excessive emotion generation, poor emotion regulation, risky decision making, and poor cognitive control. Little evidence supports emotion generation or risky decision making as the core issues driving urgency. Rather, urgency appears related to dysfunction in key hubs implicated in the integration of cognitive control and emotion regulation (e.g., the orbitofrontal cortex and anterior insula), expressed as response inhibition deficits that emerge most robustly in high arousal contexts. These neurocognitive processes appear remarkably parallel for positive and negative urgency. We provide methodological suggestions and theoretical hypotheses to guide future research.
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