Response reversal and children with psychopathic tendencies: Success is a function of salience of contingency change

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 972-981

  Budhani, S ^a,b   Blair, R James R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ADHD; Aggression; Antisocial behavior; Orbitofrontal cortex; Psychopathy; Response reversal

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MALE; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOPATHY; PUNISHMENT; REWARD; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; FRONTAL LOBE; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MOTIVATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REINFORCEMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PUNISHMENT; REVERSAL LEARNING; REWARD;

EID: 33644678001     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: 14697610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00398.x     Document Type: Article

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