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KMID : 1148920070410040280
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Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
2007 Volume.41 No. 4 p.280 ~ p.290
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Metabolic Correlates of Temperament Factors of Personality
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Park Hyeon-Soo
Kim Yu-Kyeong
Kim Sang-Eun
Cho Sang-Soo
Yoon Eun-Jin
Bang Seong-Ae
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Abstract
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Purpose: Gender differences in personality are considered to have biological bases. In an attempt to understand the gender differences of personality on neurobiological bases, we conducted correlation analyses between regional brain glucose metabolism and temperament factors of personality in males and females.
Materials and Methods: Thirty-six healthy right-handed volunteers (18 males, 33.8±17.6 y; 18 females, 36.2±20.4 y) underwent FDG PET at resting state. Three temperament factors of personality (novelty seeking (NS), harm avoidance (HA), reward dependence (RD)) were assessed using Cloninger’s 240-item Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) within 10 days of FDG PET scan. Correlation between regional glucose metabolism and each temperament factor was tested using SPM2.
Results: In males, a significant negative correlation between NS score and glucose metabolism was observed in the bilateral superior temporal gyri, the hippocampus and the insula, while it was found in the bilateral middle frontal gyri, the right superior temporal gyrus and the left cingulate cortex and the putamen in females. A positive HA correlation was found in the right midbrain and the left cingulate gyrus in males, but in the bilateral basal ganglia in females. A negative RD correlation was observed in the right middle frontal and the left middle temporal gyri in males, while the correlation was found in the bilateral middle frontal gyri and the right basal ganglia and the superior temporal gyrus in females.
Conclusion: These data demonstrate different cortical and subcortical metabolic correlates of temperament factors of personality between males and females. These results may help understand biological substrate of gender differences in personality and susceptibility to neuropsychiatric illnesses. (Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2007;41(4):280-290)
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KEYWORD
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personality, temperament, metabolic correlates, FDG PET
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