Results of behavioral genetic and molecular genetic studies have converged to suggest that
both genetic and nongenetic factors contribute to the development of attention …

Emotion is normally regulated in the human brain by a complex circuit consisting of the
orbital frontal cortex, amygdala, anterior cingulate cortex, and several other interconnected …

About one million suicides and ten million suicide attempts occur worldwide each year.
Suicide is not simply a response to stress, but generally a complication of a psychiatric …

Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is among the most common childhoodonset
psychiatric disorders. The worldwide prevalence of ADHD in children is 8% to 12%, 1 and …

In Studying Human Behavior, Helen E. Longino enters into the complexities of human
behavioral research, a domain still dominated by the age-old debate of “nature versus …

The related traits of hostility, anger, and aggressiveness have long been suggested as risk
factors for coronary heart disease (CHD). Our prior review of this literature (Smith, 1992) …

Besides their well-established actions on reproductive functions, estrogens exert a variety of
actions on many regions of the nervous system that influence higher cognitive function, pain …

Historically, the study of psychopathy in women was all but ignored by psychopathologists
and forensic psychologists. Hare's Psychopathy Checklist (PCL) and its revised version …

Identifying biological mechanisms through which genes lead to individual differences in
emotional behavior is paramount to our understanding of how such differences confer risk …

Aggression is an evolutionary conserved behavior present in most species including
humans. Inadequate aggression can lead to long‐term detrimental personal and societal …