Impulsive-compulsive behaviours are a significant source of morbidity for patients with Parkinson's disease receiving dopaminergic therapy. The development of these behaviours may reflect sensitization of the neural response to non-drug rewards, similar to that proposed for sensitization to drug rewards in addiction. Here, by using (11)C-raclopride positron emission tomography imaging, we inves...

OBJECTIVE Impulsive behavior in alcoholics puts them at serious risk of severer course of disease and has been related to the serotonergic neurotransmission dysfunction. The aim of this study is to investigate the association between impulsive aggression in alcohol dependents with regard to the G-1438A polymorphism in the promoter region of the 5-HT2A receptor gene. Furthermore, we investigated...

The behavior of steel plate walls (SPWs) under various impulsive loadings and the effects of different mesh sizes are investigated in this paper. With the aim of accurately inspecting SPWs, a series of analyses with 250 models with different plate geometric assumptions and different blast impulsive loadings are performed to study the SPWs’ out-of-plane behavior. The mild steel material specific...

Keywords: Impulsive stochastic systems Integro-differential systems Schaefer's fixed point theorem Complete controllability a b s t r a c t This paper is concerned with the controllability of impulsive stochastic integro-differential systems. Sufficient conditions of complete controllability for impulsive stochastic integro-differential systems are obtained by using Schaefer's fixed point theor...

For a class of impulsive predator-prey systems with Monod-Haldane functional response and seasonal effects, we investigate conditions for the local and global stabilities of prey-free solutions and for the permanence of the system by using the Flquet theory of impulsive differential equations and comparison techniques. In addition, we numerically analyze the phenomena caused by seasonal effects...

For a class of unified chaotic systems with parameter uncertainty, a robust impulsive synchronization scheme is proposed. Based on the theory of impulsive differential equations, some new and less conservative sufficient conditions are established in order to guarantee the robust synchronization of the chaotic systems. In particular, some simple and practical conditions are derived in synchroni...

This paper introduces the concept of square-mean piecewise almost periodic for impulsive stochastic processes. The existence of square-mean piecewise almost periodic solutions for linear and nonlinear impulsive stochastic differential equations is established by using the theory of the semigroups of the operators and Schauder fixed point theorem. The stability of the square-mean piecewise almos...

This brief paper further investigates robust impulsive synchronization of complex delayed dynamical networks. Based on impulsive control theory on delayed dynamical systems, some simple yet less conservative criteria ensuring robust impulsive synchronization of coupled delayed dynamical networks are derived analytically. Furthermore, the theoretical results are applied to a typical scale-free (...

Behavioral-economic studies have shown that differences between lean and obese Zuckers in food consumption depend on the response requirement for food. Since a response requirement inherently increases the delay to reinforcement, differences in sensitivity to delay may also be a relevant mechanism of food consumption in the obese Zucker rat. Furthermore, the endocannabinoid neurotransmitter sys...

BACKGROUND Impulsive aggression is a prevalent problem and yet little is known about its neurobiology. Preclinical and human studies suggest that the orbital frontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex play an inhibitory role in the regulation of aggression. METHODS Using positron emission tomography, regional metabolic activity in response to a serotonergic stimulus, meta-chlorophenylpipera...