Open AccessA Preliminary Study of the Opioid System and Personality Traits Using Positron Emission Tomography
Author(s) -
Alexandra M. Rodman,
Thilo Deckersbach,
Tina Chou,
Jian Kong,
Randy L. Gollub,
Darin D. Dougherty
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
complex psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2673-3005
pISSN - 2673-298X
DOI - 10.1159/000452417
Subject(s) - positron emission tomography , psychology , opioid , big five personality traits , tomography , personality , clinical psychology , medicine , social psychology , neuroscience , radiology , receptor
Personality traits, such as Neuroticism and Extraversion, have been implicated in the processing of emotion. The neural correlates most often associated with Neuroticism and Extraversion are the insular cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, amygdala, and ventral striatum.