Evidence of Deviant Emotional Processing in Psychopathy: A fMRI Case Study

In this case-report we describe a prototypical criminal psychopath by clinical characteristics and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). To study emotional disability in psychopathy we compared fMRI-BOLD (blood oxygen level dependent) responses to healthy controls. In a block-design subjects...

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Published in:	International journal of neuroscience Vol. 119; no. 6; pp. 857 - 878
Main Authors:	Hoff, Helge, Beneventi, Harald, Galta, Karen, Wik, Gustav
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Informa UK Ltd 2009 Taylor & Francis
Subjects:	Adult Antisocial Personality Disorder - physiopathology Antisocial Personality Disorder - psychology brain Brain - physiopathology Brain Mapping emotion Emotions Face facial expression fMRI Humans Magnetic Resonance Imaging Male Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology psychopathy violence
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Summary:	In this case-report we describe a prototypical criminal psychopath by clinical characteristics and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). To study emotional disability in psychopathy we compared fMRI-BOLD (blood oxygen level dependent) responses to healthy controls. In a block-design subjects were exposed to drawings of facial expressions alternated with scrambled drawings. Exposure to facial expressions activated brain regions of older origin in the psychopath, whereas all activated regions in controls were neocortical. Our findings support the notion that the processing of emotional stimuli in psychopathy is atypical.
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ISSN:	0020-7454 1563-5279 1543-5245
DOI:	10.1080/00207450701590992