Psychophysiological studies on patience behavior

最近，年轻人和老年人都没有足够的耐心。忍耐有两种；一种是为了以后更大的回报而放弃眼前的小回报，另一种是抑制服从社会或道德规则的主导反应倾向。前额叶皮层在耐心行为的控制中起着重要作用。灵长类动物前额叶神经元表现出与耐心行为相关的活动变化。已知哌醋甲酯（利他林）可以控制ADHD患者的耐心行为。将该药应用于猴子，可诱导自我控制行为的改善，并诱导前额叶皮层和纹状体多巴胺释放增加。

Recently, both young and old people do not have enough patience. There are two kinds of patience ; one is to give up immediate small reward for later and much larger reward, and the other is to inhibit predominant response tendency to follow the social or moral rule. The prefrontal cortex plays important roles in the control of patience behavior. Primate prefrontal neurons show activity changes in relation to patience behavior. Methylphenidate (Ritalin) is known to control patience behavior in ADHD patients. Application of this drug to the monkey induced improvement in self-control behavior as well as inducing increase in dopamine release in the prefrontal cortex and striatum.