Alcohol: Clinical & Experimental Research

So if the teen cannot sustain attention or an uncomfortable internal thought or emotion for more than three seconds, then the pause disappears.

So to follow that up in a classic wide widely cited study that was published in Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research.

Dr. Catherine Wentz-Stanley and her team, they investigated the direct relationship between attentional deficits and heightened impulsivity.

And what was established in this study was that when you impair attentional control, you also simultaneously, you also wreck the brain's inhibitory braking system.