It is now widely acknowledged that the personal burden of illness cannot be described fully
by measures of disease status such as size of infarction, tumour load, and forced expiratory …

Discounting future outcomes as a function of their deferred availability underlies much of
human decision making. Discounting, or preference for immediate over delayed rewards of …

Approximately half of people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) also suffer from Major
Depressive Disorder (MDD). The current paper examines evidence for two explanations of …

This study presents preliminary evidence of an association between polymorphic variation
in the gene for monoamine oxidase-A (MAOA) and interindividual variability in …

Objective Differential effects of maternal and paternal posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
have been observed in adult offspring of Holocaust survivors in both glucocorticoid receptor …

Study objective: Short and long sleep duration have been linked to various risk factors for
cardiovascular disease. In the present study, we evaluated the relationship between sleep …

The risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following trauma is heritable, but robust
common variants have yet to be identified. In a multi-ethnic cohort including over 30,000 PTSD …

Impulsivity is a complex and multidimensional construct measured using both self-report
measures and objective behavioral tasks. However, most studies using behavioral tasks have …

This study tested whether dispositional measures of optimism, pessimism, and anxiety
affected ambulatory blood pressure (BP) and mood and whether any cardiovascular effects of …

Epigenetic alterations offer promise as diagnostic or prognostic markers, but it is not known
whether these measures associate with, or predict, clinical state. These questions were …