Impulse control
Response inhibition
Also searched as Response inhibition.
In depth
A subdomain of executive function: withholding a response you have already started to make. In insomnia the impairment showed in reaction times but not in accuracy — the speed of stopping, not the ability to stop.
What drives it
Sleep increases it.
10.2147/NSS.S499702 — impaired performance of small to moderate magnitude in individuals with insomnia as compared to controls in reaction times, but not accuracy rates, of inhibitory control (d = -0.32, 95% CI: -0.52 to -0.13). doi 10.2147/NSS.S499702 · PMC6363670
What it drives
It increases Executive function.
The DSM-5 Neurocognitive Work Group agreed on six principal domains of cognitive function, each with subdomains. Executive function comprises planning, decision making, working memory, responding to feedback, inhibition and cognitive flexibility. Taxonomic edge, not a causal mechanism: this is a DSM-5 domain/subdomain relationship, not a pathway acting on another. Sachdev 2014, Nat Rev Neurol 10:634-642 — Classifying neurocognitive disorders: the DSM-5 approach. doi 10.1038/nrneurol.2014.181
It increases Curbs appetite.
go/no-go and stop-signal computer training in which participants are signaled to repeatedly respond with a button press to low-calorie food or non-food images, and repeatedly inhibit behavioral responses to…. PMC10392892
It increases Living independently.
Major neurocognitive disorder is diagnosed when cognitive decline interferes with independence in everyday activities; the DSM-5 functional criterion was revised so the threshold emphasizes loss of independence in daily living. Sachdev 2014, Nat Rev Neurol 10:634-642 — Classifying neurocognitive disorders: the DSM-5 approach. doi 10.1038/nrneurol.2014.181 That criterion is stated of the cognitive deficits COLLECTIVELY, as the mild-versus-major threshold - it does not attribute loss of independence to this one subdomain, so the arrow is carried by its own study: 'Inhibition and updating in working memory predicted a decline in b-ADL'. doi 10.1038/nrneurol.2014.181
Blends that modulate it
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