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. 2019 Dec 20;17(1):70–86. doi: 10.1007/s13311-019-00817-1

Table 2.

Delay discounting intervention studies

First author Year N1 Age ± SD % male DD type2 Delay3 Delayed amount Intervention Intervention cue type Contrast conditions WB threshold3
Boettiger 2009 9 AA, 10 HC 28.3 ± 5.8 58 Fixed 7–183 $2–$100 50 mg NTX n/a NTX versus placebo, now versus later pcorr < 0.001
Peters 2010 30 H 25.4 50 IO 1–233 20.50€–80.00€ EFT Text tag [Episodic > control] pFWE < 0.05, k = 10
Benoit 2011 12 H 27.3 33 Fixed 30–360 £28–£65 EFT Text tag [Imagine > estimate] puncorr < 0.001, k = 10
Luo 2014 15 H 33.6 ± 7.7a 59a IO 14–56 $20–$65 EP Face images [Fearful > happy] Z > 2.3, pCC < 0.05
Sasse 2015 23 H 24.96 ± 2.79 52 IO 1–190 20.50€–79.50€ EFT Text tag [Episodic > control] pFWE < 0.05
Hu 2017 22 H 24 ± 3 36 IO 7–365 > 20€ EFT Text tag [Episodic > control] puncorr < 0.001, k = 350
Sasse 2017 22 HO 66.55 ± 4.02 41 IO 1–190 20.50€–79.50€ EFT Text tag [Episodic > control] puncorr < 0.005, pCCFWE < 0.05
Wiehler 2017 23 PG, 23 HC 29.08a 100 IO 1–~200 > 20€ EFT Text tag [Episodic > control] pFWE < 0.05
Wang 2018 17 H 22.7 ± 3.0 41 Fixed 8–1110 $10–$16,600 glucose n/a [Rinse > ingestion] puncorr < 0.001, pCCFWE < 0.05

AA = abstinent alcoholics; HC = healthy control; H = healthy; HO = healthy older; PG = pathological gambler; IO = individually optimized, i.e., out-of-scanner DD parameterized trials for in-scanner DD; NTX = naltrexone; EFT = episodic future thinking; EP = emotional prime

1Including only subjects with useable fMRI data; 2used in-scanner; 3”later” option delay in days; 4WB = whole brain (Subscripts indicate correction: corr = corrected, FWE = family-wise error corrected, uncorr = uncorrected, CC = cluster corrected)

aProvided only for initial group before exclusions