ArticleDevelopment and psychopathology2021
Callous-unemotional traits and reduced default mode network connectivity within a community sample of children.
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- Clarifying the role of Cortico-Cortical and Amygdalo-Cortical brain dysconnectivity associated with Conduct Problems.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2023Pooled it
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- Neuroanatomical Subtypes of Callous-Unemotional Traits in a Community Sample of Youth.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Latent Default Mode Network Connectivity Patterns: Associations With Sleep Health and Adolescent Psychopathology.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Callous-unemotional traits, cognitive functioning, and externalizing problems in a propensity-matched sample from the ABCD study.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- Parental warmth buffers the negative impact of weaker fronto-striatal connectivity on early adolescents' academic achievement.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2025Article
- Structure-function coupling in network connectivity and associations with negative affectivity in a group of transdiagnostic adolescents.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2025Article
- Unique versus shared neural correlates of externalizing psychopathology in late childhood.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2024Article
- Newborn Brain Function and Early Emerging Callous-Unemotional Traits.JAMA psychiatry · 2024Article
- Atypical functional connectome is associated with low reflective functioning in incarcerated adolescents.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Efficiency of Heterogenous Functional Connectomes Explains Variance in Callous-Unemotional Traits After Computational Lesioning of Cortical Midline and Salience Regions.Brain connectivity · 2023Article
- Connectome-based predictive modeling of empathy in adolescents with and without the low-prosocial emotion specifier.Neuroscience letters · 2023Article
- Resting-state connectivity underlying cognitive control's association with perspective taking in callous-unemotional traits.Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging · 2023Article
- Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Prosocial Decision Making in Callous-Unemotional Traits.Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment · 2023Article
- Different whole-brain functional connectivity correlates of reactive-proactive aggression and callous-unemotional traits in children and adolescents with disruptive behaviors.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2023Article
- Psychopathic traits and altered resting-state functional connectivity in incarcerated adolescent girls.Frontiers in neuroimaging · 2023Article
- Effects of multidomain environmental and mental health factors on the development of empathetic behaviors and emotions in adolescence.PloS one · 2023Article
- Associated functional network connectivity between callous-unemotionality and cognitive and affective empathy.Journal of affective disorders · 2022Article
- Callous-unemotional traits in adolescents moderate neural network associations with empathy.Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging · 2022Article
- Cold-Blooded and on Purpose: A Review of the Biology of Proactive Aggression.Brain sciences · 2021Review
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Abstract
Callous-unemotional (CU) traits characterize a subset of youth at risk for persistent and serious antisocial behavior. Differences in resting state connectivity in the default mode network (DMN) have been associated with CU traits in forensic and clinical samples of adolescents and with deficient interpersonal/affective traits (often operationalized as Factor 1 psychopathy traits) in adults. It is unclear whether these brain-behavior associations extend to community-based children. Using mixed model analyses, we tested the associations between CU traits and within-network resting-state connectivity of seven task-activated networks and the DMN using data from 9,636 9-11-year-olds in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. Even after accounting for comorbid externalizing problems, higher levels of CU traits were associated with reduced connectivity within the DMN. This finding is consistent with prior literature surrounding psychopathy and CU traits in clinically and forensically based populations, suggesting the correlation likely exists on a spectrum, can be detected in childhood, and is not restricted to children with significant antisocial behavior.
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