If you can't stop saying or doing things that you later regret, here's a diagnostic test for you: UC Berkeley researchers have pioneered a way to better determine when acting on one's worst impulses ...

A large study reveals that while high intelligence in children with ADHD is associated with better focus, it is also linked to greater impulsivity, challenging the idea that a high IQ always protects ...

December 14, 2009 (Los Angeles, California) — Social or problem gamblers who may not meet the full Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fourth Edition) (DSM-IV) criteria for ...

Impulsivity, defined as impaired decision making, is associated with many psychiatric and behavioral disorders, such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder as ...

Only a mental-health professional can tell for sure whether symptoms of distractibility, impulsivity, and hyperactivity are severe and persistent enough to suggest a positive diagnosis of attention ...

Impulsivity is one of the core features of ADHD, especially when diagnosticians are evaluating individuals for ADHD Hyperactive-Impulsive Type and/or ADHD Combined Type (a combination of inattentive, ...

You're on a diet, but the aroma of popcorn in the movie theater lobby triggers a seemingly irresistible craving. Within seconds, you've ordered a tub of the stuff and have eaten several handfuls. A ...

Perhaps you know someone who tends to be impulsive — and it gets in their way. They act first and think second, often choosing unhealthy behaviors and perhaps getting stuck in a perpetual pattern of ...

If you can’t stop saying or doing things that you later regret, here’s a diagnostic test for you: Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have pioneered a way to better determine when ...