Active clinical trials for "Impulsive Behavior"

Tourette syndrome (TS) is characterized by the presence of multiple vocal and motor tics. Behavioral disorders associated with TS are common, particularly impulsivity, anti-sociality and socially inappropriate behavior. Specifically, cognitive impulsivity could be the source of these troubles. Its anatomical substrates is based on connections between frontal and striatal areas. Initially, a battery of behavioral tests measuring different types of impulsivity (motor, cognitive and decision) will be administered on three groups of subjects: TS: 80 patients (40 patients treated and 40 untreated) and 40 healthy volunteers. Then, investigators will study the fronto-striatal connections in the TS group of 80 patients (40 patients treated and 40 untreated) compared to 40 healthy volunteers using neuroimaging techniques (3T MRI). The techniques used will be functional connectivity study of "resting state" MRI (RS-fMRI) combined with a reconstruction of white matter fibers by diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Behavioral performance will be correlated with the correlation imaging data to highlight the functional anatomical substrates of impulsivity in patients with TS. Finally, investigators will look specifically using functional MRI activation, the anatomical and functional substrates of the three types of impulsivity (motor, cognitive and decision-making). Through this study, investigators hope to elucidate the anatomical and functional bases of cognitive impulsivity in patients with TS and thus lay the basis for more targeted treatments.

cannabis addiction is a major health hazard that has its effect on personality and behavior including the impulsivity and emotional regulation. It also has its effect on both the structure and function of different brain regions involved in brain reward system. the aim of the study is to study the emotional regulation and impulsivity among people with cannabis addiction studying the change in the volume of brain reward system structures' volume in relation to cannabis addiction and the change in the mentioned behavioral traits.

This study aims to characterize the nature of impulsivity in Parkinson's Disease (PD).

There is increasing evidence of the effects of the time-restricted diet model based on the daily intake of energy within a period of 8-12 hours on body weight control and metabolic parameters. There is no study on the potential effects of this nutritional model, which is thought to be an effective strategy in struggling with metabolic syndrome, on individuals' eating behavior and impulsivity levels. This study, which aims to evaluate the effects of time- restricted diet strategy on food intake, eating attitude and behavior and impulsivity level in adults, is a mixed method, randomized controlled intervention study. Thirty adult individuals between the ages of 18-65 will be included in this study, which will be carried out between 31.05.2021-31.12.2021 in Istinye University. Participants will be divided into 2 groups: the intervention group (n = 15) will apply a time-restricted nutrition model for 4 weeks, and no intervention will be applied to the control group (n = 15). Participants' food intake before and after the intervention period will be evaluated with a 3-day food intake record, their eating attitudes will be evaluated with the Eating Attitude Test (EAT-26), their impulsivity levels will be evaluated with the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale-Short Form (BIS-11-SF) and Go / NoGo test, and their eating behaviors will be evaluated with the Three Factor Eating Questionnaire (TFEQ-R21). At the end of the research, all individuals in the intervention group will be interviewed in depth and their experiences regarding the process will be recorded. IBM SPSS 22 program will be used in the analysis of all quantitative data, and the MAXQDA-12 program will be used in the analysis of qualitative data. The data obtained from this research will clear up the applicability of the time- restricted diet model and its effects on eating behaviors of adults.

The study aims to examine a battery of behavioral and questionnaire measures in 4 disorders clinically associated with impulsivity and in health controls, to: 1) investigate if the different populations have a distinct behavioral profile, and 2) to investigate if there are specific measures that are reliable and sensitive measures of impulsivity across diagnoses.

This study aims at identifying predictors of suicidal behaviors in depressed subjects. Investigators will first compare demographic, clinical, and biological features of depressed recent suicide attempters (within one week) and depressed subjects without lifetime history of suicide attempt. Baseline risk factors for suicide will be used to predict the risk of attempting suicide during a one year follow-up. A thorough evaluation of these patients will allow to identify the factors associated with suicidal risk and develop a simplified risk score that could be used in clinical settings to improve our practice.

This study will evaluate the relationship between psychopathology, disordered eating, and impulsivity (measured by clinical interview, self-report measures, and objective testing) on changes in weight and psychosocial status in the first two years after bariatric surgery. Participants will be 300 adults who plan to undergo bariatric surgery. Participants will complete four assessments over a two-year period, one at baseline (before surgery) and 6, 12, and 24 months after surgery. Each assessment will include computer tasks, surveys, clinical interview, urine test, waist circumference and height/weight measurement. The investigators will track how psychopathology, disordered eating, and impulsivity are related to changes in weight and psychosocial status following bariatric surgery.

The purpose of this study is to assess neurocognitive and associated neural regions/circuitry disruptions relevant to impulsive relapse in cocaine-addicted subjects, and the relationship of the cognitive and neural mechanisms of impulsivity/decision-making to relapse style.

The purpose of the this study is to compare pathological gamblers versus non-pathological gamblers using tests that measure different components of impulsivity. We aim to invite a total of 120 individuals to participate in this study. Impulsivity has been described as the cognitive inability to delay gratification, a failure to inhibit behavioral action or acting without forethought about consequences. Impulsivity has also been seen as a personality trait characterized by risk-taking or sensation seeking behavior. Pathological gamblers demonstrate aspects of impulsivity; they act without thinking, have difficult inhibiting urges to gamble and desire immediate gratification. The goal of this project is to clarify which components of impulsivity are associated with pathological gambling. Non-treatment seeking, pathological gamblers and controls will be recruited from the community and local casinos. Each participant will be administered a battery of tests that represent different operational definitions of impulsivity.

Cannabis smokers having begun prematurely their consumption (before 16 years) present a persistent impulsivity much later after have stopped their consumptions. The literature highlights that the impulsivity promotes the passage towards a compulsive consumption, and the loss of control. To explain this phenomenon, some authors hypothesized that impulsivity would lead the subjects to overestimate the duration of events and to choose immediate rewards than preferred but delayed rewards. This hypothesis questions the role of the temporal anticipation in the impulsive choices. In a first hypothesis, the temporal impulsivity could be an endogenous deficit bound to the reward, and would be responsible for disorders of the temporal anticipation. In this case, the disorders should be observed especially when the subject anticipates a reward. Alternately, a disorder of the temporal anticipation could provoke impulsivity, and in this case, would be present with or without reward. To separate these hypotheses, we propose to test the capacities of temporal anticipation of non-smokers and early smokers of cannabis by means of a behavioral task " Hazard function task ", which allow to measure the capacity of a subject to anticipate the apparition of an event on the basis of a temporal cue. The neuronal correlates will be measured by a recording EEG of the wave ' CNV ' (fix a quota for denial of variation) which reflects the temporal accumulation and the processes of anticipation.