Negative Urgency and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Responses to Alcohol Cues: fMRI Evidence of Emotion-Based Impulsivity

Abstract

The trait of negative urgency is associated with neural responses to alcohol cues in the vmPFC, a region involved in reward value and emotion-guided decision-making. This suggests that negative urgency might alter subjective craving and brain regions involved in coding reward value.