Capacity for upregulation of emotional processing in psychopathy: all you have to do is ask.

ABSTRACT: Historically, psychopathic individuals have been described as suffering a chronic hyporesponsivity to negatively valent stimuli. However, while a wide body of empirical work indicates that the psychopath does not manifest normal reactivity to emotional stimuli, it does not similarly indicate that they cannot do so. To attempt to differentiate these alternatives, the current functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study evaluated the extent to which offenders with varying PCL-R scores could up- (or down-) regulate their neural response to negatively valent stimuli. Participants were asked to either watch negatively- and neutrally-valent images naturally (passive-processing), or to try to increase or decrease their emotional response to the images (instructed-processing). During passive

SUBMITTER: Shane MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6234320 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature