Volumetric hemispheric ratio as a useful tool in personality psychology

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 157-159

  Montag, Christian ^a   Schoene Bake, Jan Christoph ^a,b   Wagner, Jan ^a,b   Reuter, Martin ^a   Markett, Sebastian ^a   Weber, Bernd ^a,b   Quesada, Carlos M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Life and Brain Center   (Germany)

Author keywords

BIS BAS; Brain asymmetry; Extraversion; Laterality; Personality; Structural brain imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIS BAS SCALE; BRAIN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; EMOTIONALITY; EXTRAVERSION; EYSENCK PERSONALITY INVENTORY REVISED; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIST; PSYCHOLOGY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VOLUMETRIC HEMISPHERIC RATIO;

ADULT; BRAIN; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875382112     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: 18728111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2012.11.004     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Barrós-Loscertales A., Meseguer V., Sanjuán A., Belloch V., Parcet M.A., Torrubia R., Avila C. Striatum gray matter reduction in males with an overactive behavioral activation system. Eur. J. Neurosci. 2006, 24:2071-2074.
2. Bien C.G., Widman G., Urbach H., Sassen R., Kuczaty S., Wiestler O.D., Schramm J., Elger C.E. The natural history of Rasmussen's encephalitis. Brain 2002, 125:1751-1759.
3. Carver C.S., White T.L. Behavioral inhibition, behavioral activation, and affective responses to impending reward and punishment: the BIS/BAS scales. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 1994, 67:319-333.
4. Cremers H., van Tol M.J., Roelofs K., Aleman A., Zitman F.G., van Buchem M.A., Veltman D.J., van der Wee N.J. Extraversion is linked to volume of the orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala. PLoS ONE 2011, 6(12):e28421.
5. Davidson R.J. Anterior electrophysiological asymmetries, emotion, and depression: conceptual and methodological conundrums. Psychophysiology 1998, 35:607-614.
6. DeYoung C.G., Hirsh J.B., Shane M.S., Papademetris X., Rajeevan N., Gray J.R. Testing predictions from personality neuroscience. Brain structure and the big five. Psychol. Sci. 2010, 21(June (6)):820-828.
7. Eysenck H.J., Eysenck S.B.G. The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised 1991, Hodder & Stoughton, Sevenoaks, UK.
8. Gutwinski S., Löscher A., Mahler L., Kalbitzer J., Heinz A., Bermpohl F. Understanding left-handedness. Dtsch. Arztebl. Int. 2011, 108:849-853.
9. Hagemann D., Naumann E., Becker G., Maier S., Bartussek D. Frontal brain asymmetry and affective style: a conceptual replication. Psychophysiology 1998, 35:372-388.
10. Hu X., Erb M., Ackermann H., Martin J.A., Grodd W., Reiterer S.M. Voxel-based morphometry studies of personality: issue of statistical model specification-effect of nuisance covariates. NeuroImage 2011, 54:1994-2005.
11. Hugdahl K. Symmetry and asymmetry in the human brain. Eur. Rev. 2005, 13:119-133.
12. Kanaan R.A., Allin M., Picchioni M., Barker G.J., Daly E., Shergill S.S., Woolley J., McGuire P.K. Gender differences in white matter microstructure. PLoS ONE 2012, 7:e38272.
13. Mahoney C.J., Rohrer J.D., Omar R., Rossor M.N., Warren J.D. Neuroanatomical profiles of personality change in frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Br. J. Psychiatry 2011, 198:365-372.
14. Peper J.S., Koolschijn P.C. Sex steroids and the organization of the human brain. J. Neurosci. 2012, 32:6745-6746.
15. Reid S.A., Duke L.M., Allen J.J. Resting frontal electroencephalographic asymmetry in depression: inconsistencies suggest the need to identify mediating factors. Psychophysiology 1998, 35:389-404.
16. Sutton S.K., Davidson R.J. Prefrontal brain asymmetry: a biological substrate of the behavioral approach and inhibition systems. Psychol. Sci. 1997, 8:204-210.
17. Wager T.D., Phan K.L., Liberzon I., Taylor S.F. Valence, gender, and lateralization of functional brain anatomy in emotion: a meta-analysis of findings from neuroimaging. NeuroImage 2003, 19:513-531.
18. Wagner J., Schoene-Bake J.C., Bien C.G., Urbach H., Elger C.E., Weber B. Automated 3D MRI volumetry reveals regional atrophy differences in Rasmussen encephalitis. Epilepsia 2012, 53:613-621.