The present study found that an endogenous patient characteristic, the personality trait pessimism, was associated with posttraumatic stress and depressive symptoms.
This is only the second study to suggest that an endogenous patient-related characteristic, personality traits, is independently associated with PTSD and depressive symptoms after hospital discharge.
This finding is noteworthy since it suggests that an endogenous patient-related factor, premorbid personality, may play an important role in conferring risk for post-ICU psychopathology.
11[Caspi and Herbener (1990)] argue that this stability may be endogenous: individuals choose situations compatible with their dispositions, such as assortative mating, and therefore maintain considerable personality stability over a lifetime.
Additionally, the endogenous aetiologies of dental fear were considered as general anxiety and depressive disorders, especially multiple phobias and depressive personality [ 41– 41].
Several risk factors have been described, the most recognized ones being: type-A personality and psychological stress [ 1, 2], pregnancy [ 3], and increased levels of corticosteroids of exogenous and endogenous origin [ 4– 10].
"Endorphin," the word, comes from "endogenous morphine".
Like endogenous retroviruses, H.I.V. would become extinct.
E.g. cannabis works because the brain has endogenous cannabinoids.
Human endogenous retrovirus-K contributes to motor neuron disease.
