Source Paper
An Animal Model of Genetic Vulnerability to Behavioral Disinhibition and Responsiveness to Reward-Related Cues: Implications for Addiction
Shelly B Flagel, Terry E Robinson, Jeremy J Clark, Sarah M Clinton, Stanley J Watson et al.
Neuropsychopharmacology • 2009
Impulsive Action Task
Objective: Measurement of difficulty withholding action to receive reward, assessing behavioral disinhibition in rats selectively bred for high or low reactivity to novel environments
This is a Impulsive Action Task protocol using rat as the model organism. The procedure involves 1 procedural steps. Extracted from a 2009 paper published in Neuropsychopharmacology.
Model and subjects
rat • Bred high-responder (bHR) and bred low-responder (bLR) lines • unknown • Not specified • Not specified
Study window
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Core workflow
Impulsive Action Task Assessment
Primary readouts
- Impulsive action performance
- Difficulty withholding action to receive reward
- Behavioral disinhibition index
- Comparison between bHR and bLR lines
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Impulsive Action Task Assessment
Rats were tested on a measure of impulsive action to assess their difficulty withholding an action to receive a reward
Note: bHRs (bred high-responder rats) were more impulsive on this measure compared to bLRs (bred low-responder rats), demonstrating behavioral disinhibition
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“although less impulsive on a measure of 'impulsive choice', bHRs were more impulsive on a measure of 'impulsive action'—ie, they had difficulty withholding an action to receive a reward”