Impulse Control: A control strategy that allows for instantaneous, discrete changes in a system’s state, often to counteract unexpected events or fluctuations.

To see if the therapy changes their brains, she gets them to play an impulse control game inside a functional magnetic resonance imager. It is similar to the popular game whack a mole.

The study of impulse control and stochastic differential games represents a vibrant intersection of applied mathematics and decision theory, where strategic agents operate in settings marked by ...