BACKGROUND: Excessive emotional responding is considered to be a hallmark of
borderline personality disorder (BPD). The affect-modulated startle response is a reliable …

BACKGROUND: Uncontrollability and unpredictability are key concepts related to re-
experiencing, avoidance, and hypervigilance symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder …

This study investigated the relationship between extraversion and rates of acoustic startle
habituation, a potential biological marker for individual differences. Personality was …

Brief startle probes presented while people perceive emotionally evocative events are
systematically and differentially modulated according to the affective valence of the …

Etiological models highlight the importance of emotions for the emergence of persecutory
ideation. To increase our understanding of their exacerbation, we tested whether this …

Emotion processing difficulties are observed in antisocial individuals exhibiting serious
antisocial behavior. This study examined emotion processing in 40 male juvenile offenders …

Though generalization of conditioned fear has been implicated as a central feature of
pathological anxiety, surprisingly little is known about the psychobiology of this learning …

Abstract Theory about the conceptual basis of psychiatric disorders has long emphasized
negative emotionality. More recent ideas emphasize roles for positive emotionality and …

Inconsistencies among affective startle reflex modulation studies may be due to differences
in the startle potentiation produced by the specific content of the images used, to individual …

Abstract “I can't get the memories out of my mind! The images come flooding back in vivid
detail, triggered by the most inconsequential things, like a door slamming or the smell of stir …