ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2018
Assessing the continuum between temperament and affective illness: psychiatric and mathematical perspectives.
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- Continuum beliefs of mental illness: a systematic review of measures.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2023Pooled it
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- The temperament of pre-teens at risk of educational and social exclusion.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Analytic Background in the Neuroscience of the Potential Project "Hippocrates".Brain sciences · 2022Review
- SlowMo therapy, a new digital blended therapy for fear of harm from others: An account of therapy personalisation within a targeted intervention.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2022Article
- A Feasibility Study of the Usefulness of the TEMPS-A Scale in Assessing Affective Temperament in Athletes.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Article
- Affectionate Touch in the Context of Breastfeeding and Maternal Depression Influences Infant Neurodevelopmental and Temperamental Substrates.Neuropsychobiology · 2021Article
- Emotionality vs. Other Biobehavioural Traits: A Look at Neurochemical Biomarkers for Their Differentiation.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- The Continuum Between Temperament and Mental Illness as Dynamical Phases and Transitions.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Review
- Taxonomies of psychological individual differences: biological perspectives on millennia-long challenges.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Diversity in action: exchange of perspectives and reflections on taxonomies of individual differences.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
- Functionality versus dimensionality in psychological taxonomies, and a puzzle of emotional valence.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
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Abstract
Temperament of healthy people and mental illnesses, particularly affective disorders, have been conjectured to lie along a continuum of neurobehavioural regulation. Understanding the nature of this continuum may better inform the construction of taxonomies for both categories of behaviour. Both temperament and mental illness refer to patterns of behaviour that manifest over long time scales (weeks to years) and they appear to share many underlying neuroregulatory systems. This continuum is discussed from the perspectives of nonlinear dynamical systems theory, neurobiology and psychiatry as applied to understanding such multiscale time-series behaviour. Particular emphasis is given to issues of generativity, fungibility, metastability, non-stationarity and contextuality. Implications of these dynamical properties for the development of taxonomies will be discussed. Problems with the over-reliance of psychologists on statistical and mathematical methods in deriving their taxonomies (particularly those based on factor analysis) will be discussed from a dynamical perspective. An alternative approach to temperament based upon functionality, and its discriminative capabilities in mental illness, is presented.This article is part of the theme issue 'Diverse perspectives on diversity: multi-disciplinary approaches to taxonomies of individual differences'.
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