Harm avoidance

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Harm avoidance
Abbreviations: HA
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Personality trait
Temperament and Character Inventory

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Harm avoidance (HA) is a trait measured with the Cloninger personality questionnaires, Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ) and Temperament and Character Inventory. The two other traits of TPQ are novelty seeking and reward dependence.

The trait is related to the neuroticism trait in the NEO family of personality questionnaires.

In TPQ there are four subdimension of HA:

  1. Anticipatory worry versus unhibited optimism
  2. Fear of uncertainty versus confidence
  3. Shyness with strangers versus gregariousness
  4. fatigability and asthenia versus vigor

Contents

[edit] Papers

[edit] Neuroimaging

Personality neuroimaging may use a range of techniques:

[edit] Brain volume studies

  1. Anatomical variability of the anterior cingulate gyrus and basic dimensions of human personality

[edit] Voxel-based morphometry

  1. Gender-common and -specific neuroanatomical basis of human anxiety-related personality traits
  2. Volume of left amygdala subregion predicted temperamental trait of harm avoidance in female young subjects. a voxel-based morphometry study

[edit] Blood flow

  1. Correlation between human personality and neural activity in cerebral cortex

[edit] Glucose metabolism

  1. Gender difference in relationship between anxiety-related personality traits and cerebral brain glucose metabolism

[edit] Neuroreceptor

  1. In vivo serotonin 5HT2A receptor binding and personality traits in healthy subjects: a positron emission tomography study

[edit] Personality genetics

  1. Association between serotonin transporter gene polymorphism and anxiety-related traits
  2. The C(-1019)G 5-HT1A promoter polymorphism and personality traits: no evidence for significant association in alcoholic patients

[edit] Others

  1. Harm avoidance and serotonin
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