Temperament - Physiology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Studying affect among the Chinese: the circular way.

30 Aug 2009 Past research on Chinese emotion has been plagued by the lack of a measurement map for affective feelings. In this article, I developed a fine-grained circumplex model of affective feelings that is arbitrarily defined by 12 segments. I created ... Read more...

Serotonin transporter availability in the amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis predicts anxious temperament and brain glucose metabolic activity.

10 Aug 2009 The serotonin transporter (5-HTT) plays a critical role in regulating serotonergic neurotransmission and is implicated in the pathophysiology of anxiety and affective disorders. Positron emission tomography scans using [(11)C]DASB ... Read more...

Electrophysiological responses to auditory novelty in temperamentally different 9-month-old infants.

29 Jun 2009 Behavioral reactivity to novel stimuli in the first half-year of life has been identified as a key aspect of early temperament and a significant precursor of approach and withdrawal tendencies to novelty in later infancy and early childhood. The ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Temperament - Physiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Studying affect among the Chinese: the circular way. 30 Aug 2009
• Serotonin transporter availability in the amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis predicts anxious temperament and brain glucose metabolic activity. 10 Aug 2009
• Electrophysiological responses to auditory novelty in temperamentally different 9-month-old infants. 29 Jun 2009
• Amygdala and insula response to emotional images in patients with generalized social anxiety disorder. 29 Jun 2009
• [Possible role of psychological and environmental factors in the genesis of childhood vitiligo] 21 Apr 2009
• The neurobiology of personality disorders: implications for psychoanalysis. 30 Mar 2009
• Dispositional optimism and engagement: the moderating influence of goal prioritization. 30 Mar 2009
• Variations in cortical folding patterns are related to individual differences in temperament. 26 Feb 2009
• Temperamental activation and inhibition associated with autonomic function in preadolescents. The TRAILS study. 11 Feb 2009
• Relationship of type 1 cannabinoid receptor availability in the human brain to novelty-seeking temperament. 30 Jan 2009
• The development of temperament from a behavioral genetics perspective. 30 Dec 2008
• Social factors influence ovarian acyclicity in captive African elephants (Loxodonta africana). 30 Dec 2008
• Gene-environment interactions across development: Exploring DRD2 genotype and prenatal smoking effects on self-regulation. 30 Dec 2008
• Personality and having children: a two-way relationship. 30 Dec 2008
• Maternal and contextual influences and the effect of temperament development during infancy on parenting in toddlerhood. 25 Dec 2008
• Antenatal betamethasone and fetal growth in prematurely born children: implications for temperament traits at the age of 2 years. 13 Dec 2008
• Association between the alpha-2C-adrenergic receptor gene and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in a Korean sample. Dec 2008
• Bond disorders of a patient with asthma: a case study. 29 Nov 2008
• Difficult temperament, breastfeeding, and their mutual prospective effects: the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study. 29 Nov 2008
• Genetic and environmental influences on the junior temperament and character inventory in a preadolescent twin sample. 27 Nov 2008

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Technical information about 'Temperament'

Definition: Predisposition to react to one's environment in a certain way; usually refers to mood changes.

Descriptor UI: D013694

Alternative terms: Temperament; Temperaments;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F01.752.898;

Online Note: search PERSONALITY 1968-74

History Note: 91(75); was see under PERSONALITY 1975-90