Neuroticism (N) is believed to reflect a stable disposition involving specific biological and
psychological mechanisms that produce its robust association with psychopathology. The …

Personality psychology seeks both to understand how individuals differ from one another in
behavior, motivation, emotion, and cognition and to explain the causes of those differences …

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is mainly reflected in the communication and language
barriers, difficulties in social communication, and it is a kind of neurological developmental …

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is the most common personality disorder in clinical
settings. It is characterized by negative affectivity, emotional liability, anxiety, depression, as …

Clinical anxiety impairs decision making, and high trait anxiety interferes with learning. Less
understood are the effects of temporary anxious states on learning and decision making in …

BackgroundFear conditioning involves the amygdala as the main neural structure for
learning fear responses whereas fear extinction mainly activates the inhibitory prefrontal …

The arterial baroreflex is a key mechanism for the homeostatic control of blood pressure
(BP). In animals and humans, psychological stressors suppress the capacity of the arterial …

Strong emotion and mental stress are now recognized as playing a significant role in severe
and fatal ventricular arrhythmias. The mechanisms, although incompletely understood …

An individual's tendency to show exaggerated or otherwise dysregulated cardiovascular
reactions to acute stressors has long been associated with increased risk for clinical and …

Objective Heart rate variability (HRV) changes as a function of psychiatric illness. This study
aimed to evaluate HRV among patients with various psychiatric disorders. Methods The …