Dr. Abraham Palmer’s research featured in Neuroscience News article on delayed discounting

A recent article in Neuroscience News features the new findings presented by Dr. Abraham Palmer and James MacKillop at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology's 2015 meeting. Their research shows that delayed discounting has a heritable genetic basis. Delayed discounting is the tendency to choose a smaller reward that is available immediately over a larger reward that will be delivered in the future. Identifying the genes responsible for this trait will be an important step in understanding the basis of various psychiatric disorders.

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