Psychopathic traits influence amygdala-anterior cingulate cortex connectivity during facial emotion processing.

ABSTRACT: There is accumulating evidence that youths with antisocial behavior or psychopathic traits show deficits in facial emotion recognition, but little is known about the neural mechanisms underlying these impairments. A number of neuroimaging studies have investigated brain activity during facial emotion processing in youths with Conduct Disorder (CD) and adults with psychopathy, but few of these studies tested for group differences in effective connectivity-i.e. changes in connectivity during emotion processing. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging and psycho-physiological interaction methods, we investigated the impact of CD and psychopathic traits on amygdala activity and effective connectivity in 46 male youths with CD and 25 typically-developing controls when processing emotional f

SUBMITTER: Ewbank MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6007413 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature