Genetic and environmental relations of executive functions to antisocial personality disorder symptoms and psychopathy.

ABSTRACT: Meta-analytic findings suggest that antisocial behavior, broadly defined, may relate to a Common Executive Function (EF) factor that captures covariance across response inhibition, working memory updating, and mental set shifting tasks. However, it is unclear whether this common factor, which is isomorphic with individual differences in response inhibition, accounts for all of the EF variance in antisocial behavior and psychopathy, or if they also relate to updating- and shifting-specific abilities. Moreover, findings that antisocial behavior and lower cognitive ability are particularly associated with the psychopathy dimension reflecting impulsivity and irresponsibility, compared to the dimension reflecting affective-interpersonal functioning, raise the possibility that EF relates to the

SUBMITTER: Friedman NP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6581644 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature