The past decade has seen remarkable development in neurosciences and genetics, which greatly facilitated research in genetic psychophysiology, an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of psychophysiology and human genetics. This review provides a survey of the main advances in this field as well as problems and caveats, some of which are well known to geneticists but may be less appreciated in the psychophysiologists and cognitive neuroscientists, and, finally, outlines future directions in genetic psychophysiology research in the light of recent advances in both genomic technologies and novel approaches to physiological signal analysis and multimodal neuroimaging.
