The structural brain correlates of callous-unemotional traits in incarcerated male adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Youth with severe conduct problems impose a significant cost on society by engaging in high levels of antisocial and aggressive behavior. Within this group, adolescents with high levels of callous- unemotional traits have been found to exhibit more severe and persistent patterns of antisocial behavior than youth with severe conduct problems but normative levels of callous-unemotional traits. Existing neuroimaging studies, along with theoretical accounts of psychopathology, suggest that dysfunction within the paralimbic cortex and limbic system may underlie elevated levels of callous-unemotional traits. The present study examines this hypothesis by investigating gray matter correlates associated with callous-unemotional traits. A sample of incarcerated male adolescents (N = 269), were asses

SUBMITTER: Caldwell BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6370859 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature