Neural correlates of reward and loss sensitivity in psychopathy

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 794-801

  Pujara, Maia ^a,b   Motzkin, Julian C ^a,b   Newman, Joseph P ^b   Kiehl, Kent A ^c,d,e   Koenigs, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c MIND RESEARCH NETWORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

FMRI; Prison; Psychopathy; Reward; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS STRIATUM; GAME; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OFFENDER; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PUNISHMENT; REWARD;

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS STRIATUM; CRIMINALS; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTIVATION; ORGAN SIZE; PUNISHMENT; REWARD;

EID: 84902254833     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nst054     Document Type: Article

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