Journal
CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHIATRY
Volume 13, Issue 6, Pages 611-616Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00001504-200011000-00024
Keywords
-
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Rapid progress is being made in understanding the neurobiology of human personality. This has been facilitated by using self-report questionnaires that assess multiple dimensions of personality quantitatively and reliably. Hypothesis-driven research has mapped models with five to seven dimensions of personality to results from brain imaging, neurophysiology, neurochemistry, and molecular genetics. At each level of organization there are non-linear interactions among multiple variables. Even at the molecular genetic level, each personality dimension is influenced by epistatic interactions among a family of genes, and the sets influencing each trait are partially specific and partially overlapping. What emerges is a picture of self-organizing complexity appropriate for psychobiological systems that involve adaptation to an ever-changing environment. Curr Opin Psychiatry 13:611-616 (C) 2000 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available