Interrelationships among anxiety, aggression, impulsivity, and mood: A serotonergically linked cluster?

Alan Apter; Herman M. van Praag; Robert Plutchik; Serge Sevy; Martin Korn; Serena Lynn Brown

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Interrelationships among anxiety, aggression, impulsivity, and mood: A serotonergically linked cluster?

Alan Apter, Herman M. van Praag, Robert Plutchik, Serge Sevy, Martin Korn, Serena Lynn Brown

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Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	191-199
Number of pages	9
Journal	Psychiatry Research
Volume	32
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-1781(90)90086-k
State	Published - May 1990

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Serotonin
depression
psychiatric inpatients
psychometric tests
suicidality
violence

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