Exploring the relationship between vitamin D and basic personality traits

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 215, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 733-737

  Ubbenhorst, Andrea ^a   Striebich, Sarah ^a   Lang, Florian ^a   Lang, Undine E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

25(OH) 2D 3; Calciferol; Calcitriol; Depression; Diet; Extraversion; Openness. Neuroticism; Personality; Vitamin D. 1

Indexed keywords

CALCITRIOL; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; AGGREEABLENESS; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CONSCIENTIOUSNESS; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; OPENNESS; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CALCITRIOL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; VITAMIN D;

EID: 80052935116     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-011-2175-x     Document Type: Article

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