Emotion and Disorders of Emotion

You might want to check out this open access special focus issue of Nature Magazine on emotion and disorders of emotion. The starting editorial introduces the articles. Individual susceptibility to depression and anxiety in response to life stressors may be related to genetic variation, and I would point to the review article by Klaus-Peter Lesch and Turhan Canli. It explores how individual variation in the serotonin transporter gene may interact with personality, emotion regulation and social cognition.