1. Introduction, Turhan Canli
I. Overview and a Historical Perspective
2. Jeffrey Gray's Contributions to Theories of Anxiety,
Personality, and Psychopathology, Don C. Fowles
II. Studies of Extraversion and Related Traits
3. Biosocial Bases of Sensation Seeking, Marvin Zuckerman
4. Interpersonal Behavior and the Structure of Personality:
Neurobehavioral Foundation of Agentic Extraversion and Affiliation,
Richard A. Depue
5. Genomic Imaging of Extraversion, Turhan Canli
6. Neural Substrates for Emotional Traits?: The Case of
Extraversion, Brian Knutson and Jamil Bhanji
7. Mapping the Neural Correlates of Dimensions of Personality,
Emotion, and Motivation, John D. Herrington, Nancy S. Koven,
Gregory A. Miller, and Wendy Heller
III. Age and Sex as Determinants of Individual Differences
8. The Affective Neuroscience of Aging and Its Implications for
Cognition, Marisa Knight and Mara Mather
9. Sex Differences in Neural Responses to Sexual Stimuli in Humans,
Stephan Hamann
10. Sex Differences in Brain Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Response to Stress, Rajita Sinha
IV. Genetic and Neural Analyses of Anxiety-Related Traits
11. Neuroticism as a Genetic Marker for Mood and Anxiety, Nathan A.
Gillespie and Nicholas G. Martin
12. The Association of Personality with Anxious and Depressive
Psychopathology, Christel M. Middeldorp, Danielle C. Cath, Mireille
van den Berg, A. Leo Beem, Richard van Dyck, and Dorret I.
Boomsma
13. 5-HT1A Receptor and Anxiety-Related Traits: Pharmacology,
Genetics, and Imaging, Klaus-Peter Lesch and Turhan Canli
14. Genetically Driven Variation in Serotonin Function: Impact on
Amygdala Reactivity and Individual Differences in Fearful and
Anxious Personality, Ahmad R. Hariri
V. Individual Differences in Children
15. Etiology of Psychopathic Tendencies in Children: Distinguishing
a Genetically Vulnerable Subgroup of Children with Antisocial
Behavior, Essi Viding and Robert Plomin
16. A Cognitive-Behavioral Genetic Approach to Emotional
Development in Childhood and Adolescence, Jennifer Y. F. Lau and
Thalia C. Eley
17. Cognitive and Biological Functioning in Children at Risk for
Depression, Ian H. Gotlib, Jutta Joormann, Kelly L. Minor, and
Rebecca E. Cooney
VI. Personality in Animals
18. Using Mouse Models to Unravel Aggressive Behavior, Silvana
Chiavegatto
19. Searching for Genetic and Environment Contributions to
Personality and Happiness in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes),
Alexander Weiss and James E. King
20. How Can Animal Studies Contribute to Research on the Biological
Bases of Personality?, Pranjal H. Mehta and Samuel D. Gosling
Turhan Canli, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Stony Brook University and a member of the Graduate Program in Genetics. He holds degrees from Tufts University (BA, 1988) and from Yale University (PhD, 1993). Dr. Canli’s research focuses on the neurogenetic basis of personality and emotion, using a combination of cognitive-behavioral paradigms, noninvasive brain imaging (functional magnetic resonance imaging) and stimulation (transcranial magnetic stimulation), and genotyping for gene polymorphisms related to personality traits.
Questions about the biological basis of personality and the self
are among the most important and least understood ones facing brain
scientists and other biologists and psychologists. This volume
provides an excellent, up-to-date survey of some of the key issues
from a variety of perspectives. It will be a valuable resource for
all who are interested in these topics.--Joseph LeDoux, PhD, Center
for Neural Science, New York University
This is an outstanding book on biological processes underlying some
of the major dimensions of personality and individual differences.
It will be of interest to graduate students and researchers alike.
Current findings from diverse fields such as cognition, psychiatry,
behavioral neuroscience, and comparative psychology address
personality traits and processes, showing how far we have come and
how far yet there is to go.--Paul T. Costa, Jr., PhD
Individual differences have always been of fundamental concern to
psychology, but until recently the neurological, biochemical, and
genetic underpinnings of personality have been more a matter of
speculation than research. Turhan Canli has gathered together as
thoughtful a collection of scholars as one could imagine, and their
research agenda will guide the field for decades. This is a
fascinating read for personality and social psychologists who want
to know more about the neurosciences, and for neuroscientists who
want a better understanding of how their methods and paradigms can
help us address that fundamental question in our field: What
differentiates one person from another?--Peter Salovey, PhD
- A comprehensive and informative synthesis of the current state of
research on the biology personality. The chapters reflect the
multiple perspectives of their authors, representing contributions
from behavioral and molecular genetics, cognitive science,
psychology, psychiatry, psychopathology, neurophysiology, and
neuropsychology. An array of investigative tools is employed....The
volume provides an in-depth assessment of current research into the
multiple linkages between biological processes and mental and
personality functioning. For students of whatever professional
level who are interested in deepening their understanding of the
complex integrative relation between mind and body, this will be a
welcome and enriching addition to the literature. --Bulletin of the
Menninger Clinic, 1/25/2006ƒƒ Canli's edited book is for those who
have both an interest in neuroscience and a passion for
well-designed scientific inquiry....The material presented is both
fascinating and exciting....Readers, be they psychologists or
psychiatrists, involved in this field and interested in increasing
their familiarity, awareness and understanding of current
contributions from psychobiological neuroscience, will find this
book both enlightening and gratifying. --Child and Family Behavior
Therapy, 1/25/2006
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