Chapter 25 Integration of emotion and cognition in patients with psychopathy

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 156, Issue , 2006, Pages 457-466

  Sommer, Monika ^a   Hajak, Göran ^a   Döhnel, Katrin ^a   Schwerdtner, Johannes ^a   Meinhardt, Jörg ^b   Müller, Jürgen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

emotion cognition interaction; emotional impairment; psychopathy

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTIVATION; NEUROMODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOPATHY; REVIEW; SOCIALIZATION; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS; VIOLENCE; BRAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BRAIN; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 33749076641     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(06)56025-X     Document Type: Review

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