Journal article
Functional connectivity bias in the prefrontal cortex of psychopaths
O Contreras-Rodríguez, J Pujol, I Batalla, BJ Harrison, C Soriano-Mas, J Deus, M López-Solà, D Macià, V Pera, R Hernández-Ribas, J Pifarré, JM Menchón, N Cardoner
Biological Psychiatry | Published : 2015
Abstract
Background Psychopathy is characterized by a distinctive interpersonal style that combines callous-unemotional traits with inflexible and antisocial behavior. Traditional emotion-based perspectives link emotional impairment mostly to alterations in amygdala-ventromedial frontal circuits. However, these models alone cannot explain why individuals with psychopathy can regularly benefit from emotional information when placed on their focus of attention and why they are more resistant to interference from nonaffective contextual cues. The present study aimed to identify abnormal or distinctive functional links between and within emotional and cognitive brain systems in the psychopathic brain to ..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias de la Seguridad Social of Spain Grant Nos. PI050884 and PI050884, the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion of Spain Grant No. SAF2010-19434, the Departament de Justicia de la Generalitat de Catalunya, a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Clinical Career Development Award (I.D. 628509; BJH), a "Miguel Servet" contract from the Carlos III Health Institute (CP10/00604; CS-M), and the Beatriu de Pinos-A postdoctoral fellowship (2010_BP_A_00136) of the Government of Catalunya (ML-S). JD and ML-S are part of the Research Group SGR1450 of the Catalonia Government. We thank the Secretaria de Serveis Penitenciaris Rehabilitacio i Justicia Juvenil and the Centres Penitenciaris de Catalunya for their collaboration.