Neural correlates of emotional personality: a structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

ABSTRACT: Studies addressing brain correlates of emotional personality have remained sparse, despite the involvement of emotional personality in health and well-being. This study investigates structural and functional brain correlates of psychological and physiological measures related to emotional personality. Psychological measures included neuroticism, extraversion, and agreeableness scores, as assessed using a standard personality questionnaire. As a physiological measure we used a cardiac amplitude signature, the so-called E κ value (computed from the electrocardiogram) which has previously been related to tender emotionality. Questionnaire scores and E κ values were related to both functional (eigenvector centrality mapping, ECM) and structural (voxel-based morphometry, VBM) neuroimaging data.

SUBMITTER: Koelsch S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3842312 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature