Citation

Apter A, van Praag HM, Plutchik R, Sevy S, Korn M, Brown SL. Psychiatry Res. 1990; 32(2): 191-199.

Affiliation

Bar Ilan University, Israel.

Comment In:

Psychiatry Res 1991;36(2):237-9

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2367604

Abstract

Serotonin abnormalities appear to be related to a variety of psychopathological dimensions such as anxiety, depressed mood, impulsivity, and aggression dysregulation. We hypothesized that the psychopathological dimensions related to serotonin would be significantly intercorrelated since they seem to have a common biological basis. Sixty psychiatric inpatients were examined on a series of psychometric tests measuring suicidality, violence potential, impulsivity, depressive mood, and anxiety. The scores on all of these measures tended to be significantly correlated with one another. These findings support the additional hypothesis that biological markers may be more closely related to basic psychological dimensions than to nosological categories.

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