Impulsivity and ADHD

Main Chapters: 00:00 Intro – Impulsivity and ADHD 00:10 Take home message 01:48 What is Impulsivity? 09:28 Links Between ADHD and Impulsivity 14:00 2026 Study on Impulsivity 17:19 Conclusion Impulsivity is one of the central symptoms of ADHD - yet only 3 of 9 symptoms of the official DSM impulsive/hyperactive criteria for ADHD address impulsivity. Impulsivity can entail acting before thinking, ignoring or not attending to relevant information, trouble restraining initial reactions, and poor planning for the future. Recent evidence has shown strong genetic contributions to impulsivity, but more importantly, that impulsivity is a collection of related and overlapping traits, with both common and unique and distinct genetic contributions to each of these traits. ----- Free link to my Medium article on Impulsivity and ADHD: https://medium.com/invisible-illness/go-ahead-eat-the-marshmallow-e1f95ec4492b?sk=7d6ec4af250c5882bc4e452427176af4 Follow https://dockruse.medium.com on Medium for hundreds of full length articles on this subject and more! Access to Full Medium articles requires paid membership. ----- References: Characterizing the Pleiotropic Architecture of Impulsivity and Its Links to Psychopathology and Neurodevelopment (2026, Mallard) https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.20240382 Modeling urgency in the lab: Exploring the associations between self-reported urgency and behavioral responses to negative outcomes in laboratory gambling (2023, Eben) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691823000252?via%3Dihub Predicting mid-life capital formation with pre-school delay of gratification and life-course measures of self-regulation (2020, Mischel et al.) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268119302641?via%3Dihub Impulsivity and Venturesomeness in an Adult ADHD Sample: Relation to Personality, Comorbidity, and Polygenic Risk (2020, Grimm) https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.557160/full Impulsivity in patients with borderline personality disorder: a comprehensive profile compared with healthy people and patients with ADHD (2020) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31439062/ Waiting impulsivity: a distinctive feature of ADHD neuropsychology? (2019 Van Dessel) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/09297049.2018.1441819?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed Impulsivity as an Endophenotype in ADHD: Negative Findings (2018, Figueiredo) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1087054718816161 The Marshmallow Test (2015, Mischel) https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/walter-mischel/the-marshmallow-test/9780316230865/ Norepinephrine and impulsivity: Effects of acute yohimbine (2014) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3742556/ The Role of Serotonin in the Regulation of Patience and Impulsivity (2012) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3311865/ Characterizing the Pleiotropic Architecture of Impulsivity and Its Links to Psychopathology and Neurodevelopment (2026, Mallard) Travis Mallard PhD Harvard (MIT, 23andMe) https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.20240382 Anxiety and Impulsiveness Related to Psychomotor Efficiency (1959, Barratt) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.2466/pms.1959.9.3.191 Full Chapter list: 00:00 Intro – Impulsivity and ADHD 00:10 Take home message 01:48 What is Impulsivity? 02:21 Measuring Impulsivity 06:56 Temporal Discounting 09:28 Links Between ADHD and Impulsivity 10:46 Endophenotype of ADHD 12:53 Venturesomeness and Impulsivity 14:00 2026 Study on Impulsivity 17:19 Conclusion ------------------------- Psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and author John Kruse, MD, PhD presents practical, actionable, well-researched information about treatment options that scientists and clinicians recommend for adult ADHD and other mental health conditions. Subscribe if you're curious about how neuroatypical brains can optimize their functioning in our shared, and somewhat strange, world. ADHD topics have a pink background, and those on more general mental health topics have a purple background. A small collection of Politics related videos have an orange background. Dr. Kruse has posted videos in the "Videos", "Live", and "Shorts", sections of this channel. You're welcome to email him with topics you want discussed or people you think he should interview. [email protected] #health #mentalhealth #adhd #impulsivity