The problem is not a lack of free will but a more prosaic impaired decision-making.
As they grow increasingly detached from reality, heavy users often exhibit impaired decision-making abilities, becoming paranoid, agitated and quick to anger.
Revealing impaired decision-making and determining an individual's incompetency becomes yet another dehumanizing part of Alzheimer's disease.
The requirements for involuntary substance treatment vary widely across the nation, from posing a serious danger to oneself, others or property, to impaired decision-making or even something as vague as losing control of oneself.
The finding raised the question of how many current players of all ages may be playing with the disease and experiencing its effects, which include depression, impaired decision-making and ultimately dementia.
Rescuers can also experience impaired decision-making ability or impaired efficiency, which can have fatal consequences in an emergency situation.
The study subjects then went on to complete something called the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), a classic research tool that evaluates impaired decision making.
We predicted that manic, depressed, and euthymic bipolar patients (BPs) would display impaired decision-making, and we tested whether clinical characteristics could predict patients' decision-making performance.
Lesioned rats exhibited impaired decision-making: they made fewer advantageous choices and chose the most optimal choice less frequently than did sham-operated rats.
In the present study, we hypothesized that impaired decision-making may be associated with an increased risk of negative life events in suicide attempters.
