Brain Structural Correlates of Emotion Recognition in Psychopaths.

ABSTRACT: Individuals with psychopathy present deficits in the recognition of facial emotional expressions. However, the nature and extent of these alterations are not fully understood. Furthermore, available data on the functional neural correlates of emotional face recognition deficits in adult psychopaths have provided mixed results. In this context, emotional face morphing tasks may be suitable for clarifying mild and emotion-specific impairments in psychopaths. Likewise, studies exploring corresponding anatomical correlates may be useful for disentangling available neurofunctional evidence based on the alleged neurodevelopmental roots of psychopathic traits. We used Voxel-Based Morphometry and a morphed emotional face expression recognition task to evaluate the relationship between regional gra

SUBMITTER: Pera-Guardiola V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4866737 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature