BACKGROUND Human personality consists of two fundamental elements character and temperament. Character allays automatic and preconceptual emotional responses determined by temperament. However, the neurobiological basis of character and its interplay with temperament remain elusive. Here, we examined character-temperament interplay and explored the neural basis of character, with a particular f...

Accurate decoding of facial expressions is critical for human communication, particularly during infancy, before formal language has developed. Different facial emotions elicit distinct neural responses within the first months of life. However, there are broad individual differences in such responses, so that the same emotional expression can elicit different brain responses in different infant...

background: rhinoplasty is the most common cosmetic surgery which has been dramatically increasing in iran. currently, iran is ranked the first in the world in rhinoplasty. in the present study, we aimed to assess the character and temperament traits of the applicants referred to rhinoplasty surgeons in shiraz, southwest iran in 2015. methods: in this cross-sectional study, we recruited 500 par...

OBJECTIVE To investigate temperament-creativity relationships in euthymic bipolar (BP) and unipolar major depressive (MDD) patients, creative discipline controls (CC), and healthy controls (HC). METHODS 49 BP, 25 MDD, 32 CC, and 47 HC (all euthymic) completed three self-report temperament/personality measures: the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R), the Temperament Evaluation of the...

Temperamental characteristics are important facets of child behavior and can be assessed and used for parent education and guidance by members of many professional groups: Clinical practice using information about temperament is dedicated to: 1)understanding of the importance of normal individuality in behavior in infants and children, and 2) application of information about temperament by pare...

A substantial proportion of children and adolescents come to suffer from psychological disorders. This article focuses on the temperament factors that are involved in the pathogenesis of child psychopathology. It is argued that besides the reactive temperament factor of emotionality/neuroticism, the regulative process of effortful control also plays an important role in the etiology and mainten...

Much interest has been raised in potential interactions between infant temperament and his/her behavioural characteristics during sleep. Although during wakefulness, temperament characteristics become more sharply focused and measurable, it has been argued that there is no true independence between these two state-specific behaviours (1,2). This may seem particularly true for the very young inf...

The current study investigated early temperament in 54 infants at familial high-risk of ASD and 50 controls. Parental report of temperament was assessed around 7, 14 and 24 months of age and diagnostic assessment was conducted at 3 years. The high-risk group showed reduced Surgency at 7 and 14 months and reduced Effortful Control at 14 and 24 months, compared to controls. High-risk infants late...

Several factors such as season, genetics, social interaction and metabolic status control or modulate the reproductive capacity of sheep. In addition to these well-studied factors in sheep, the influence of emotional reactivity on the reproductive success of sheep has started to be investigated over the last two decades. In this paper, after briefly reviewing the impact of classical factors aff...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to investigate temperament and character correlates of panic disorder (PD) comorbidity in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder (BD) or unipolar depression (UD). METHODS Temperament and character were assessed using the Temperament and Character Inventory Revised (TCI-R) in 181 patients (70 patients with BD-I, 51 patients with BD-II and 60 with UD) in a euthymic ...