General startle reactivity reflects defensive reactivity independent of affective foreground. We
examined the relationship between general startle reactivity and startle response to threat in …

This study examined the contribution of the phenotypic domains of boldness, meanness,
and disinhibition of the triarchic conceptualization of psychopathy (Patrick, Fowles, & …

BACKGROUND: The ability to self-report on affective experience is essential to both our
everyday communication about emotion and our scientific understanding of it. However, the …

Trait impulsivity, which is often defined as a strong preference for immediate over delayed
rewards and results in behaviors that are socially inappropriate, maladaptive, and short …

Enhanced startle reactivity during exposure to unpleasant cues (aversive startle potentiation;
ASP) appears in the RDoC matrix as a physiological index of acute threat response …

Attentional modulation of startle eyeblink was studied in college students putatively at risk for
psychosis and in normal controls. Atrisk subjects had extreme scores on scales for either …

Recent approaches have aimed to represent the dimensional structure of psychopathology,
but relatively little research has rigorously tested subdimensions within internalizing …

Research on biological correlates of psychopathology stands to benefit from being
interwoven with an empirically based, quantitative model of mental disorders. Empirically …

Current formal psychiatric approaches to nosology are plagued by an unwieldy degree of
heterogeneity with insufficient appreciation of the commonalities of emotional, personality …

Background: Individual differences in neural circuitry that regulate emotional reactivity may
be associated with alcoholism and antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), a common …