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Functional neural correlates of psychopathy: a meta-analysis of MRI data.
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- Emotion processing in youths with conduct problems: an fMRI meta-analysis.Translational psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Exploring the neural correlates of (altered) moral cognition in psychopaths.Behavioral sciences & the law · 2021Pooled it
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- The Cognitive-Affective Social Processing and Emotion Regulation (CASPER) model.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Review
- Cortical structure in relation to empathy and psychopathy in 800 incarcerated men.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- White Matter Correlates of Psychopathic Traits in a Japanese Community Sample: Sex Matters!The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
- Psychophysiology of facial emotion recognition in psychopathy dimensions and oxytocin's role: A scoping review.PloS one · 2025Article
- Impaired salience network switching in psychopathy.Behavioural brain research · 2023Article
- Cortical and subcortical grey matter correlates of psychopathic traits in a Japanese community sample of young adults: sex and configurations of factors' level matter!Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Do I care for you or for me? Processing of protected and non-protected moral values in subjects with extreme scores on the Dark Triad.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2023Article
- Out of their minds? Externalist challenges for using AI in forensic psychiatry.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- Morphological Features of Human Dendritic Spines.Advances in neurobiology · 2023Review
- Psychopathic and autistic traits differentially influence the neural mechanisms of social cognition from communication signals.Translational psychiatry · 2022Article
- Amygdala-prefrontal connectivity in children with maladaptive aggression is modulated by social impairment.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2022Article
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- The origins of evil: From lesions to the functional architecture of the antisocial brain.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Psychopathic tendency in violent offenders is associated with reduced aversive Pavlovian inhibition of behavior and associated striatal BOLD signal.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Neuroimaging studies over the last two decades have begun to specify the neurobiological correlates of psychopathy, a personality disorder that is strongly related to criminal offending and recidivism. Despite the accumulation of neuroimaging studies of psychopathy, a clear and comprehensive picture of the disorder's neural correlates has yet to emerge. The current study is a meta-analysis of functional MRI studies of psychopathy. Multilevel kernel density analysis was used to identify consistent findings across 25 studies (460 foci) of task-related brain activity. Psychopathy was associated with increased task-related activity predominantly in midline cortical regions overlapping with the default mode network (dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate, and precuneus) as well as medial temporal lobe (including amygdala). Psychopathy was related to decreased task-related activity in a region of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex overlapping with the salience network. These findings challenge predominant theories of amygdala hypoactivity and highlight the potential role of hyperactivity in medial default mode network regions and hypoactivity in a key node of the salience network during task performance in psychopathy.
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