Disrupted neural processing of emotional faces in psychopathy

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 505-512

  Contreras rodríguez, Oren ^a,b   Pujol, Jesus ^a   Batalla, Iolanda ^c   Harrison, Ben J ^a,d   Bosque, Javier ^e   Ibern regàs, Immaculada ^f   Hernández ribas, Rosa ^a,b   Soriano mas, Carles ^a,b   Deus, Joan ^g   López solà, Marina ^a,b   Pifarré, Josep ^c   Menchón, José M ^b   Cardoner, Narcís ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e Centre Penitenciari de Ponent   (Spain)

^f Department of Justice Generalitat de Catalunya ^*  (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Face recognition; FMRI; Functional connectivity; Psychopathy

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84898789552     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nst014     Document Type: Article

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