Aggression is a behavior with evolutionary origins, but is often both destructive and
maladaptive in today's society. Research over the past several decades has confirmed the …

Serotonin is one of the most important neurotransmitters influencing mental health and, thus,
is a potential target for pharmaco-logical treatments. Functional neuroimaging techniques …

This article proposes a multidimensional model of aggression in borderline personality
disorder (BPD) from the perspective of the biobehavioral dimensions of affective …

Suicidality is a major challenge for today's health care. Evidence suggests that there are
differences in cognitive functioning of suicidal patients but the knowledge about the …

The serotonergic system plays a key modulatory role in the brain and is the target for many
drug treatments for brain disorders either through reuptake blockade or via interactions at …

Aggression research was for long dominated by the assumption that aggression-related
psychopathologies result from the excessive activation of aggression-promoting brain …

With recent studies using genetic, epigenetic, and other molecular and neurochemical
approaches, a new era has begun in understanding pathophysiology of suicide. Emerging …

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a complex and serious mental disorder that is
commonly seen psychiatric practice. Although stress, especially early life stress, seems to be …

This review gives an overview of those in vivo imaging studies on synaptic
neurotransmission, which so far have been performed on patients with mental and affective …

While it is premature to provide a simple model for the vulnerability to the development of
either borderline (BPD) or schizotypal (SPD) personality disorder, it is clear that these …