Limbic abnormalities in affective processing by criminal psychopaths as revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging.

By Kent A. Kiehl, Andra M. Smith, Robert D. Hare, A. Mendrek, B. B. Forster, J. Brink, Peter F. Liddle. Biological Psychiatry, 2001

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Psychopathy, the PCL-R, and criminal justice: Some new findings and current issues. (2016, background): “These pictures were early brain images my colleagues and I had obtained from psychopathic and other individuals while they processed semantic and emotional material (later published as Intrator et al., 1997; Kiehl et al., 2001).”
Psychopathy, reactive aggression, and precarious proclamations: A review of behavioral, cognitive, and biological research. (2011, background): “Similarly, psychopaths who, as previously discussed, tend to commit primarily instrumental homicides, show enhanced activity in the frontotemporal regions during affective tasks (Intrator et al., 1997; Kiehl et al., 2001; Muller et al., 2003).”
Psychopathic Traits and Perceptions of Victim Vulnerability (2009, background): “…examining brain activity has concluded that psychopathic individuals use more cortical areas of the brain for processing affective stimuli (e.g., Kiehl et al., 2001; Munro et al., 2007), it may be that psychopaths are processing emotional stimuli in a more cognitive and rational manner as…”
Responding to the emotions of others: dissociating forms of empathy through the study of typical and psychiatric populations. (2005, neutral): “Thus, individuals with psychopathy show reduced amygdaloid volume relative to comparison individuals (Tiihonen et al., 2000) and reduced amygdala activation during emotional memory (Kiehl et al., 2001) and aversive conditioning tasks (Viet et al., 2002).”
The importance of callous-unemotional traits for developmental models of aggressive and antisocial behavior (2008, background): “Further, there is evidence that adults with psychopathic traits show reduced amygdala activation during a task involving affective memory ( Kiehl, Smith, & Hare, 2001 ).”
How (and where) does moral judgment work? (2002, background): “extending caudally and dorsally intoBA 7.The posterior cingulate/retrosplenial cortex is one of the most commonly activated areas in neuroimaging studies of emotion [38]and one of the areas exhibiting decreasedactivity in psychopaths during the processing of emotionally valenced words [ 24 ].”
A Theory Explaining Biological Correlates of Criminality (2005, result): “A recent study of MRI scans found that compared to people in general, psychopaths had limbic systems that were relatively non-responsive to emotional stimuli and were also minimally communicating with the prefrontal areas in the frontal lobes (Kiehl et al. 2001).”
The Evolution of Morality (2015, background): “1984); as a matter of fact, about the only individuals who can’t make it are psychopaths (Blair 1995), whose characteristics have little to do with upbringing but almost certainly result from neurological aberration (Wootten et al. 1997; Laakso et al. 2001; Kiehl et al. 2001).”
Functional Networks in Emotional Moral and Nonmoral Social Judgments (2002, background): “There is increasing evidence that primary psychopaths comprise a particularly severe subgroup of antisocial individuals whose deviant behaviors are related to structural and functional brain abnormalities (Raine et al., 2000; Kiehl et al., 2001).”