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The Psychology and Neuroscience of Impulsivity Yuliya Richard, PhD (Head of Clinical Psychology, Australia)

The Psychology and Neuroscience of Impulsivity By Yuliya Richard, PhD (Head of Clinical Psychology, Australia)

The Psychology and Neuroscience of Impulsivity by Yuliya Richard, PhD (Head of Clinical Psychology, Australia)


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The Psychology and Neuroscience of Impulsivity Summary

The Psychology and Neuroscience of Impulsivity by Yuliya Richard, PhD (Head of Clinical Psychology, Australia)

The Psychology and Neuroscience of Impulsivity is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of impulsivity and related psychological and neural substrates. The book is divided into four sections that provide the readers with a general overview of impulsivity, neural and cognitive substrates of impulsive behaviors, and the relationship between impulsivity and risk-taking behaviors. The second section discusses the links between impulsivity and erroneous behaviors, such as anger and aggressive behaviors and interpersonal violence. The third section reviews how impulsive behaviors are key features of several clinical disorders, such as pathological gambling, drug abuse, and antisocial personality disorder. The last section presents possible treatment options for impulsivity, including a number case studies.

About Yuliya Richard, PhD (Head of Clinical Psychology, Australia)

Dr. Yuliya Richard is a clinical psychologist and director of Blue Horizon Counselling. In collaboration with other psychologists and video editors, Dr. Richard has developed the Online Training Program (Impulsivity.com.au) for the treatment for impulsive behaviors including alcohol addiction. Dr. Richard has obtained her PhD in Health and Clinical Psychology from the University of Newcastle in 2016. Since then, she has been working on developing Online Training programs to deliver services to people across Australia who might not have a chance or opportunity to seek professional help face to face. Dr. Ahmed Moustafa is a Professor of Psychology and Computational Modeling at School of Psychology, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Prior to moving to Bond University, Ahmed was an associate professor in Psychology and Neuroscience at Marcs Institute for Brain, Behavior, and Development & School of Psychology, Western Sydney University. Ahmed is trained in computer science, psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. His early training took place at Cairo University in mathematics and computer science. Before joining Western Sydney University as a lab director, Ahmed spent 11 years in America working on several psychology and neuroscience projects. Ahmed conducts research on computational and neuropsychological studies of addiction, schizophrenia, Parkinsons disease, PTSD, depression, Alzheimers disease. He has published over 240 papers in high-ranking journals including Science, PNAS, Journal of Neuroscience, Brain, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, Nature (Parkinsons disease), Neuron, among others. Ahmed has obtained grant funding from Australia, USA, Qatar, UAE, Turkey, and other countries. Ahmed has recently published ten books: (1) Computational models of brain and behavior; (2) Social Cognition in Psychosis, (3) computational Neuroscience Models of the Basal Ganglia, (4) Cognitive, Clinical, and Neural Aspects of Drug Addiction; (5) The Nature of Depression: An updated review; (6) Big data in psychiatry and neurology; (7) Alzheimers Disease: Understanding Biomarkers, Big Data, and Therapy. Elsevier; (8) Cognitive and Behavioral Dysfunction in Schizophrenia; (9) Female Pioneers from Ancient Egypt and the Middle East; and (10) Mental health effects of COVID-19. In the last 10 years, Ahmed has published collaboratively with 71 colleagues, has more than 510 co-authors, from 35 institutions in 14 countries. Ahmed is now Editor-in-Chief of Discover Psychology, a new journal by Springer Nature.

Table of Contents

Section I: Impulsivity and sexual behaviors 1. Impulsivity in the context of pornography use and compulsive sexual behavior 2. Compulsive sexual behavior: disorder and impulsivity 3. Impulsivity and sexting 4. Impulsivity and gender-based violence in intimate partner relationships: insights from Latin America (Ecuador and Argentina) Section II: Impulsivity and addictive behaviors 5. Impulsivity and its relationships with social media addiction, internet addiction, and smartphone addiction 6. How impulsivity influences Nigerian youths waterpipe tobacco smoking behavior: Investigating the moderating role of denormalization of waterpipe tobacco in online newspapers 7. Childhood adversity, suicidality, and substance use: links to impulsivity 8. Impulsivity and addictions Section III: Impulsivity in clinical conditions 9. Impulsivity in decision-making: The case of behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia 10. Mental health states and impulsivity: role of stress, depression, and anxiety 11. Impulsivity and psychopathy associations under the Triarchic Model of Psychopathy 12. Impulsivity in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Section IV: Impulsivity and everyday life behaviors 13. The various aspects of impulsivity: a review of research studies in the Arab world, especially Egypt 14. Consumer impulsive buying: causes, consequences, and control 15. The buying impulse: Delving into the psychological depths of irresistible buying behavior 16. The case for impulsivity screening in driving license examinations 17. Driving and impulsivity 18. Impulsivity and intimate partner violence 19. Impulsivity from the personality psychologists perspective

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The Psychology and Neuroscience of Impulsivity by Yuliya Richard, PhD (Head of Clinical Psychology, Australia)
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Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
2023-12-01
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