ArticleScientific reports2017
Anger provocation in violent offenders leads to emotion dysregulation.
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- The analysis of the prefrontal cortex and its facilitator role of violence: conclusions of a systematic review and meta-analysis based on neuroimaging results.Brain imaging and behavior · 2026Pooled it
- A systematic review of measures of emotion regulation in forensic settings.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Using physiological biomarkers in forensic psychiatry: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Neural correlates of aggression in personality disorders from the perspective of DSM-5 maladaptive traits: a systematic review.Translational psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- The Effects of Expressive Arts Therapy on Emotion Regulation and Aggression in Violent Offenders: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The dark sides of the brain: A systematic review and meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies on trait aggressionAggression and violent behavior · 2025Article
- Evidence for lateralized functional connectivity patterns at rest related to the tendency of externalizing or internalizing anger.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Development of the nurse's communication ability with angry patients scale and evaluation of its psychometric properties.Journal of advanced nursing · 2021Article
- Anger provocation increases limbic and decreases medial prefrontal cortex connectivity with the left amygdala in reactive aggressive violent offenders.Brain imaging and behavior · 2019Article
- Impact of emotional and motivational regulation on putting performance: a frontal alpha asymmetry study.PeerJ · 2019Article
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Abstract
Anger and anger regulation problems that result in aggressive behaviour pose a serious problem for society. In this study we investigated differences in brain responses during anger provocation or anger engagement, as well as anger regulation or distraction from anger, and compared 16 male violent offenders to 18 non-offender controls. During an fMRI adapted provocation and regulation task participants were presented with angry, happy and neutral scenarios. Prior research on violent offenders indicates that a combination of increased limbic activity (involved in emotion), along with decreased prefrontal activity (involved in emotion regulation), is associated with reactive aggression. We found increased ventrolateral prefrontal activity during anger engagement in violent offenders, while decreased dorsolateral and ventrolateral prefrontal activity was found during anger distraction. This activity pattern was specific for anger. We found no exclusive pattern for happiness. In violent offenders, this suggests an increased need to regulate specifically during anger engagement and regulation difficulties when explicitly instructed to distract. The constant effort required for violent offenders to regulate anger might exhaust the necessary cognitive resources, resulting in a risk for self-control failure. Consequently, continuous provocation might ultimately contribute to reactive aggression.
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