ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2018
Neuroimaging Metrics of Drug and Food Processing in Cocaine-Dependence, as a Function of Psychopathic Traits and Substance Use Severity.
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- Comparing the relationship between emotional responsiveness and psychopathy across assessment types: a systematic review and meta-analysis.CNS spectrums · 2025Pooled it
- Using physiological biomarkers in forensic psychiatry: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Psychopathy and medial frontal cortex: A systematic review reveals predominantly null relationships.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Psychopathy dimensions and substance use: evidence from a non-institutionalized adult population.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Clarifying Relations Between Core Features of Psychopathy and Substance (Mis)use: A Replication and Extension in Two Large Independent Samples.Journal of personality disorders · 2024Article
- Psychopathy.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2021Review
- Altered power spectra in antisocial males during rest as a function of cocaine dependence: A network analysis.Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging · 2021Article
- Machine learning approaches for parsing comorbidity/heterogeneity in antisociality and substance use disorders: A primer.Personality neuroscience · 2021Article
- Recent neuro-imaging findings with respect to conduct disorder, callous-unemotional traits and psychopathy.Current opinion in psychiatry · 2020Review
- Psychopathy and Corticostriatal Connectivity: The Link to Criminal Behavior in Methamphetamine Dependence.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Dysfunctional neurocognition in individuals with clinically significant psychopathic traits .Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2019Review
- Addiction and the Dark Triad of Personality.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Review
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Abstract
Previous studies suggest that psychopathic traits commonly present as comorbid with substance use disorders. Moreover, neuroimaging and psychometric findings suggest that psychopathic traits may predispose individuals to a sensitized reward response to drugs. Given that substance use disorders are characterized by a neurocognitive bias toward drug-reward relative to non-drug reward, it is possible that heightened psychopathic characteristics may further predispose to this processing bias. To evaluate this possibility, we assessed psychopathic traits (measured using the PCL-R; Hare, 2003) in 105 probationers/parolees and evaluated the relationship between PCL-R scores, lifetime duration of drug use, and biases in neural response to drug- compared to food-related videos. Psychopathic traits (potentially driven by interpersonal/affective traits) were positively correlated with drug > food reactivity within the right insula and left amygdala. In addition, psychopathic traits modulated the relationship between drug use and drug > food reactivity within the left dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, right insula, and left caudate nucleus. Specifically, lifetime duration of drug use correlated positively with drug > food reactivity in participants with lower levels of psychopathic traits and correlated negatively with drug > food reactivity in individuals with higher levels of psychopathic traits. These results help reconcile prior studies on psychopathy and drug-stimulus processing and provide neurocognitive support for the notion that psychopathic traits serve as an underlying risk factor for substance use disorders. These results suggest that different treatment regimens for substance abuse for individuals with higher or lower levels of psychopathy may be beneficial and suggest that reduction of neurocognitive biases to drug-related stimuli may offer useful targets for future treatment protocols.
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