Psychopathy

SA De Brito, AE Forth, AR Baskin-Sommers… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a constellation of affective,
interpersonal, lifestyle and antisocial features whose antecedents can be identified in a …

How reliable are amygdala findings in psychopathy? A systematic review of MRI studies

P Deming, M Heilicher, M Koenigs - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2022 - Elsevier
The amygdala is a key component in predominant neural circuitry models of psychopathy.
Yet, after two decades of neuroimaging research on psychopathy, the reproducibility of …

A systematic literature review of neuroimaging of psychopathic traits

M Johanson, O Vaurio, J Tiihonen… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Core psychopathy is characterized by grandiosity, callousness,
manipulativeness, and lack of remorse, empathy, and guilt. It is often comorbid with conduct …

The neuromoral theory of antisocial, violent, and psychopathic behavior

A Raine - Psychiatry Research, 2019 - Elsevier
The neuromoral theory of antisocial behaviors argues that impairment to the neural circuitry
underlying morality provides a common foundation for antisocial, violent, and psychopathic …

Functional neural correlates of psychopathy: a meta-analysis of MRI data

P Deming, M Koenigs - Translational psychiatry, 2020 - nature.com
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 …

How to keep unreproducible neuroimaging evidence out of court: A case study in fMRI and psychopathy.

J Jalava, S Griffiths, RR Larsen - Psychology, Public Policy, and …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
The amount of neuroimaging evidence introduced in courts continues to increase.
Meanwhile, neuroimaging research is in the midst of a reproducibility crisis, as many …

Reduced engagement of the anterior cingulate cortex in the dishonest decision-making of incarcerated psychopaths

N Abe, JD Greene, KA Kiehl - Social cognitive and affective …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
A large body of research indicates that psychopathic individuals lie chronically and show
little remorse or anxiety. Yet, little is known about the neurobiological substrates of …

[HTML][HTML] Psychopathy and medial frontal cortex: A systematic review reveals predominantly null relationships

P Deming, S Griffiths, J Jalava, M Koenigs… - Neuroscience & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Theories have posited that psychopathy is caused by dysfunction in the medial frontal
cortex, including ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) …

Meta-analysis of the moral brain: patterns of neural engagement assessed using multilevel kernel density analysis

SJ Fede, KA Kiehl - Brain imaging and behavior, 2020 - Springer
The neuroimaging literature in moral cognition has rapidly developed in the last decade with
more than 200 publications on the topic. Neuroimaging based models generally agree that …

Neuro-cognitive systems that, when dysfunctional, increase aggression risk and the potential for translation into clinical tools

RJR Blair - Aggression and Violent Behavior, 2024 - Elsevier
The goal of this narrative review paper is to consider forms of neurocognitive dysfunction
that increase risk for reactive and instrumental aggression. Neuro-cognitive functions that …