Biological Basis of Personality: A Brief Review. J. Life Sci. Biomed. 6(2): 33-36

This brief review discusses the research on biology-based personality and personality theories with biological basis. These theories include Eysenck's three factor model of personality, Gray's reinforcement sensitivity theory, and Cloninger’s model of personality. The biology-based personality research is a relatively new topic in the field of psychology and there is a lot of scope for further research in the future specially in the field of neuroscience. Although it is a relatively new topic, but growing in interest and number of publications. Only recently in August 2004, there was a conference specifically on this topic, called “The Biological Basis of Personality and Individual Differences”. This was a good forum for presenting and sharing of ideas between psychologists, psychiatrists, molecular geneticists, and neuroscientists. Recently it was named as the field of 'Personality. Therefore, further research on the biological basis of personality, especially in the field of 'Personality Neuroscience' is recommended.