Eye gaze patterns and functional brain responses during emotional face processing in adolescents with conduct disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Conduct disorder (CD) is characterized by severe aggressive and antisocial behavior. Initial evidence suggests neural deficits and aberrant eye gaze pattern during emotion processing in CD; both concepts, however, have not yet been studied simultaneously. The present study assessed the functional brain correlates of emotional face processing with and without consideration of concurrent eye gaze behavior in adolescents with CD compared to typically developing (TD) adolescents.

Methods

58 adolescents (23CD/35TD; average age = 16 years/range = 14-19 years) underwent an implicit emotional face processing task. Neuroimaging analyses were conducted for a priori-defined regions of interest (insula, amygdala, and medial orbitofrontal cortex) and using a full-factorial des

SUBMITTER: Menks WM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7735971 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature