Serotonin regulates a wide variety of brain functions and behaviors. Here, we synthesize
previous findings that serotonin regulates executive function, sensory gating, and social …

A great deal of research aims to identify risk factors related to individual vulnerability to
develop stress-induced psychopathologies. Here, we summarize evidence that point at …

This book focuses on the crucial importance of developmental work to psychotherapy and
psychopathology. It offers an account of psychotherapy to integrate scientific knowledge of …

The gene encoding the serotonin transporter (5-HTT) contains a regulatory variation that has
been associated with anxiety-related traits and susceptibility for depression. Here we …

In his highly influential Psychological Bulletin article “Subjective Well-Being”, Diener (1984)
proposed that subjective well-being has three distinct components: life satisfaction (LS) …

Personality neuroscience involves the use of neuroscience methods to study individual
differences in behavior, motivation, emotion, and cognition. Personality psychology has …

Objective: Involvement of personality traits in susceptibility to suicidality has been the subject
of research since the 1950s. Because of the diversity of conceptual and methodological …

Psychiatric disorders represent a large economic burden in modern societies. However,
pharmacological treatments are still far from optimal. Drugs used in the treatment of major …

Despite the well-established sex difference in prevalence of many childhood and adolescent
psychopathological conditions, no integrative metatheory of sex differences in …

Evidence from diverse literatures supports the viewpoint that two modes of self-regulation
exist, a lower-order system that responds quickly to associative cues of the moment and a …