Serotonin, personality and borderline personality disorder
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Serotonin, personality and borderline personality disorder.
Serotonin is one of the neurotransmitters implicated in normal personality. Many psychobiological models of personality include some dimensions related to serotonin. For instance, the harm avoidance dimension of the biosocial model developed by Cloninger is related to serotonergic activity. Higher scores on the harm avoidance dimension should theoretically reflect increased serotonergic activit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Neuropsychiatrica
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0924-2708,1601-5215
DOI: 10.1034/j.1601-5215.2002.140203.x