The processing of animacy information is disrupted as a function of callous-unemotional traits in youth with disruptive behavior disorders.

ABSTRACT: Atypical amygdala responses to emotional stimuli have been consistently reported in youth with Disruptive Behavior Disorders (DBDs; Conduct Disorder/Oppositional Defiant Disorder). However, responding to animacy stimuli has not been systematically investigated. Yet, the amygdala is known to be responsive to animacy stimuli and impairment in responsiveness to animacy information may have implications for social cognitive development. Twenty-nine youth with DBDs and 20 typically developing youth, matched for IQ, age (M_age  = 14.45, SD = 2.05) and gender, completed a dot probe task during fMRI. Stimuli consisted of negative/faces, negative/objects, neutral/faces and neutral/objects images. Youth with DBDs, relative to typically developing youth, showed: i) redu

SUBMITTER: Thornton LC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5609860 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature