Commentary: Novelty Seeking and Reward Dependence-Related Large-Scale Brain Networks Functional Connectivity Variation During Salience Expectancy

Cristiano Crescentini. Front. Psychol. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00242 (General Commentary ARTICLE Provisionally accepted, The full-text will be published soon)

In recent years several neuropsychological and psychiatry studies employed the psychobiological model of temperament and character to investigate the relationship between personality and neuropsychological function in patients with Parkinson’s disease, Friedreich Ataxia, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, eating disorders, and antisocial behavior.
These studies indicated that alterations in personality and cognition are not independent from each other, in that poor development of specific personality traits appears to be associated with deficits in neuropsychological performance, in particular in advanced cognition such as executive functions.