Deficient fear conditioning in psychopathy: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

By Niels Birbaumer, Ralf Veit, Martin Lotze, Michael Erb, C. Hermann, Wolfgang Grodd, Herta Flor. Archives of General Psychiatry, 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health

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Regulation of anterior insular cortex activity using real-time fMRI (2007, background): “…of the insular activity with rtfMRI training might be relevant for the development of novel approaches for clinical treatment of social phobia or antisocial behavior which have shown overactivity and hypoactivity, respectively, in the insular region (Veit et al., 2002; Birbaumer et al., 2005).”
The neural basis of empathy. (2012, background): “…predispositions to unempathic responding, how neural plasticity can go awry, and the influence of deficient empathy on aggressive, impulsive, and selfish behavior (Birbaumer et al. 2005, Boccardi et al. 2010, Decety et al. 2009b, Kiehl et al. 2001, Sterzer et al. 2007, Tiihonen et al. 2008).”
The Antisocial Brain: Psychopathy Matters: A Structural MRI Investigation of Antisocial Male Violent Offenders (2012, background): “Among men with psychopathy, aversive conditioning impairments correlate with functional reductions in anterior insula activity.(32) The structural differences observed in our study remained statistically significant after controlling for both IQ and histories of SUD and are consistent with findings ”
Deficits in facial affect recognition among antisocial populations: a meta-analysis. (2008, background): “Such regions include the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (Stein et al. 2007) and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, a region that has extensive functional connections with the amygdala and that is often found to be impaired in antisocial individuals (Birbaumer et al. 2005; Kiehl et al. 2001).”
A structural neural deficit in adolescents with conduct disorder and its association with lack of empathy (2007, background): “Functional neuroimaging studies of emotion processing in aggressive and violent individuals indeed support this view by demonstrating functional deficits in brain regions involved in emotion recognition, most notably the amygdala (Birbaumer et al., 2005; Kiehl et al., 2001; Sterzer et al., 2005; Vei”
The positive side of psychopathy: Emotional detachment in psychopathy and rational decision-making in the ultimatum game (2010, methodology): “Subjects with psychopathy fail to exhibit an electrodermal response and show reduced activation of the affective neural circuit in response to aversive stimuli or distress cues from other people (Benning, Patrick, & Iacono, 2005; Birbaumer et al., 2005; Lorber, 2004; Lykken, 1957).”
Brain–computer interfaces: communication and restoration of movement in paralysis (2007, background): “Journal compilation C© 2007 The Physiological Society the results of Birbaumer et al. (2005) finding a complete lack of activation of the fear circuit (amygdala, anterior insula and cingulate, orbitofrontal cortex) in criminal psychopaths during aversive Pavlovian conditioning the first three…”
Emergent Ghosts of the Emotion Machine (2010, background): “For example, individuals high in fear during a public speaking task may be at increased risk for social phobia (e.g., Gentili et al., 2008), or individuals very low in fear during a standard shock conditioning paradigm may show antisocial behavior in other contexts (e.g., Birbaumer et al., 2005).”
Reduced amygdala response to fearful expressions in children and adolescents with callous-unemotional traits and disruptive behavior disorders. (2008, result): “Our data also did not indicate group differences in activation in some regions that may be impaired in individuals with callous-unemotional traits, including the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, the anterior cingulate cortex, and the insula (3, 5, 36).”