Introduction. Individual differences in temperament and attention provide an important link
between normal and pathological development. Previous studies suggest that during …

Studies on the association between the functional uMAOA polymorphism and depression
have yielded non‐conclusive results up till now. One thousand two hundred twenty eight …

Depressive symptoms that are faced by women in the pre-, peri-, and postmenopausal
periods are determined by a wide array of sociodemographic, psychological, and biological …

Biologically based theories of personality have always been shaped by the available
technologies of neuroscience. More recently, advances in noninvasive brain mapping have …

Genetic variation in the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) Val158Met polymorphism has
been shown to influence performance on cognitive and emotional tasks. Specifically, it has …

Efforts to identify genetic factors that confer an increased risk for the expression of
psychiatric symptoms have focused on polymorphisms in variety of candidate genes …

Several molecular genetic studies have been conducted with regard to the association
between catecholamine-related genes and personality traits. However, the results of …

Genes involved in serotonergic and dopaminergic neurotransmission have been
hypothesized to affect different aspects of personality, but findings from genetic association …

Despite consistent observations of sex differences in depression and related emotional
disorders, we do not yet know how these sex differences modulate the effects of genetic …

The COMT gene is considered as one of the prominent candidate genes for susceptibility to
BP, and most studies focused a functional polymorphism in the gene: the Val/Met …