The ability to regulate emotions is an important part of adaptive functioning in society.
Advances in cognitive and affective neuroscience and biological psychiatry have facilitated …

Autism covers a wide spectrum of disorders for which there are many views, hypotheses and
theories. Here we propose a unifying theory of autism, the Intense World Theory. The …

Autism is a devastating neurodevelopmental disorder with a polygenetic predisposition that
seems to be triggered by multiple environmental factors during embryonic and/or early …

Cognitive deficits are well documented in psychiatric disorders, particularly in schizophrenia
and depression. Cognitive activity roots in perceptions. However, research on sensorial …

Several psychiatric disorders are associated with white matter defects, suggesting that
oligodendrocyte (OL) abnormalities underlie some aspects of these diseases. Neuregulin 1 …

Personality dimensions such as novelty seeking (NS), harm avoidance (HA), reward
dependence (RD) and persistence (PER) are said to be heritable, stable across time and …

Bipolar disorder (BPD) is characterized by recurrent episodes of disturbed affect including
mania and depression as well as changes in psychovegetative function, cognitive …

Objectives: Strong qualitative and quantitative evidence exists of white matter abnormalities
in both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD). Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies …

Bipolar affective disorder is a common, severe, chronic, and often life-threatening illness,
associated with other medical and psychiatric conditions (ie, co-morbidity). The treatment of …

Bipolar disorder is a chronically disabling psychiatric disorder characterized by manic states
that is often interspersed with periods of depression whose neurobiology remains largely …