Molecular genetics of personality

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 73-80

  Noblett, Kurtis L ^b   Coccaro, Emil F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING) ISOENZYME A; CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLECYSTOKININ A RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 3 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 4 RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 1B RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 2A RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 2C RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

AGGRESSION; ALCOHOLISM; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY DISORDER; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CATECHOLAMINERGIC SYSTEM; COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; EMPIRICISM; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EXTRAVERSION; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NEUROSIS; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PHENOTYPE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SCHIZOIDISM; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM;

EID: 16844367676     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-005-0028-1     Document Type: Review

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