The Biological Aspects of Normal Personality

Section One Arousal Theory and Personality: Methodological and Conceptual Issues.- Studies of Autonomic Response Patterns: Rationale and Methods.- The Psychological Significance of the Concept of “Arousal” or “Activation”.- Activation: A Neuropsychological Dimension.- A Comparison of Two Measures of “Arousal” in Normal Subjects.- The Measurement of Autonomic Arousal.- The Two-Arousal Hypothesis: Reticular Formation and Limbic System.- Section Two Pavlov and Strength of the Nervous System.- Some Normal and Pathological Properties of Nervous Processes in the Brain.- The Problem of Types of Human Higher Nervous Activity and Methods of Determining Them.- Conditioning, Introversion — Extraversion and the Strength of the Nervous System.- Strength of the Nervous System, Introversion — Extraversion, Conditionability and Arousal.- Relationship Between “Strength of the Nervous System” and the Need for Stimulation.- Extraversion, Neuroticism and Strength of the Nervous System.- Section Three Introversion/Extraversion.- The Chemical Theory of Temperament Applied to Introversion and Extraversion.- Cortical Inhibition, Figural Aftereffect, and Theory of Personality.- Neurophysiologic Studies of Personality.- Extraversion, Reminiscence and Satiation Effects.- Pupillary Response, Conditioning, and Personality.- Psychoticism: A Study of its Biological Basis in Normal Subjects.- Section Four Cortical Substrates of Behaviour.- The Anterior Cingulate Gyrus and Personality.- Personality Analysis Before and After Frontal Lobotomy.- The Effect of Brain Damage on the Personality.- Brain Function and Behaviour.- Psychological Correlates of Monoamine Oxidase Activity in Normals.- Section Five Behavioural Genetics.- The Inheritance of Extraversion-Introversion.- The Inheritance of Personality.- Heritability of Personality: A Demonstration.- The Nature of Extraversion: A Genetical Analysis.- A Longitudinal Study of the Genetics of Personality.