SynthesisPersonality disorders2018
A systematic review examining the link between psychopathic personality traits, antisocial behavior, and neural reactivity during reward and loss processing.
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- Why Do They Do It? The Psychology Behind Antisocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents.Pediatric reports · 2025Review
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- Punishment and Reward Sensitivity in Risk-Taking as Potential Mechanisms Explaining the Relationships Between Childhood Callous-Unemotional Traits and Adolescent Substance Use in a Longitudinal Cohort Study Sample.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
- Diminished pain sensitivity mediates the relationship between psychopathic traits and reduced learning from pain.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Arousal, interindividual differences and temporal binding a psychophysiological study.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Novel genome-wide associations for effort valuation and psychopathology in children and adults.American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics · 2024Article
- Exposure to community violence as a mechanism linking neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and neural responses to reward.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Annual Research Review: Neuroimmune network model of depression: a developmental perspective.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2024Review
- Functional Connectivity of the Nucleus Accumbens across Variants of Callous-Unemotional Traits: A Resting-State fMRI Study in Children and Adolescents.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
- Clinical characteristics of adults with alcohol dependence syndrome comorbid with antisocial personality disorder: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- A neurocognitive model of early onset persistent and desistant antisocial behavior in early adulthood.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Review
- The Interplay between Reward-Relevant Life Events and Trait Reward Sensitivity in Neural Responses to Reward Cues.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2022Article
- Modeling Variation in Empathic Sensitivity Using Go/No-Go Social Reinforcement Learning.Affective science · 2022Article
- Alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (αMSH) modulates the rewarding properties of social interactions in an oxytocin receptor-dependent manner in Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus Auratus).Physiology & behavior · 2022Article
- A multidimensional examination of psychopathy traits and gray matter volume in adults.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2022Article
- Sex Moderates Reward- and Loss-Related Neural Correlates of Triarchic-Model Traits and Antisocial Behavior.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2022Article
- Behavioral Activation System and Early Life Parental Abuse Are Associated with Antisocial Behaviors in Mexican Adolescents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The origins of evil: From lesions to the functional architecture of the antisocial brain.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Reward processing and psychopathic traits in children.Personality disorders · 2021Article
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Abstract
Antisocial Behavior (AB) has a tremendous societal cost, motivating investigation of the mechanisms that cause individuals to engage and persist in AB. Recent theories of AB emphasize the role of reward-related neural processes in the etiology of severe and chronic forms of AB, including antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy. However, no systematic reviews have evaluated the hypothesis that reward-related neural dysfunction is an etiologic factor in AB in adult samples. Moreover, it is unclear whether AB is linked to a hyper- or hyposensitive reward system and whether AB is related to neural sensitivity to losses. Thus, the current systematic review examined whether AB (including antisocial personality disorder) and psychopathic traits are related to neural reactivity during reward processing, loss processing, or both. Our review identified seven task-based functional MRI or functional connectivity studies that examined associations between neural response to reward and loss, and dimensional and categorical measures of adult AB and/or psychopathy. Across studies, there was evidence that AB is associated with variability in neural functioning during both reward and loss processing. In particular, impulsive-antisocial traits appeared to be specifically associated with hypersensitivity in the ventral striatum during the anticipation, but not the receipt, of rewards. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
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