Distinct neural activation patterns underlie economic decisions in high and low psychopathy scorers

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1099-1107

  Vieira, Joana B ^a,b,c   Almeida, Pedro R ^a   Ferreira Santos, Fernando ^a   Barbosa, Fernando ^a   Marques Teixeira, João ^a   Marsh, Abigail A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b University of Porto   (Portugal)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Psychopathy; Ultimatum game; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS, BEHAVIORAL; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929042756     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nst093     Document Type: Article

References (74)

1. Anderson, S.W., Barrash, J., Bechara, A., Tranel, D. (2006). Impairments of emotion and real-world complex behavior following childhood- or adult-onset damage to ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 12(2), 224-35.
2. Barch, D.M., Braver, T.S., Nystrom, L.E., Forman, S.D., Noll, D.C., Cohen, J.D. (1997). Dissociating working memory from task difficulty in human prefrontal cortex. Neuropsychologia, 35(10), 1373-80.
3. Bargh, J.A., Ferguson, M.J. (2000). Beyond behaviorism: on the automaticity of higher mental processes. Psychological Bulletin, 126(6), 925-45.
4. Barrash, J., Tranel, D., Anderson, S.W. (2000). Acquired personality disturbances associated with bilateral damage to the ventromedial prefrontal region. Developmental Neuropsychology, 18(3), 355-81.
5. Barrett, L.F., Tugade, M.M., Engle, R.W. (2004). Individual differences in working memory capacity and dual-process theories of the mind. Psychological Bulletin, 130(4), 553-73.
6. Baumgartner, T., Knoch, D., Hotz, P., Eisenegger, C., Fehr, E. (2011). Dorsolateral and ventromedial prefrontal cortex orchestrate normative choice. Nature Neuroscience, 14(11), 1468-74.
7. Bechara, A. (2004). Disturbances of emotion regulation after focal brain lesions. International Review of Neurobiology, 62, 159-93.
8. Birbaumer, N., Veit, R., Lotze, M., et al. (2005). Deficient fear conditioning in psychopathy: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Archives of General Psychiatry, 62(7), 799-805.
9. Blair, R.J. (2005). Applying a cognitive neuroscience perspective to the disorder of psychopathy. Developmental Psychopathology, 17(3), 865-91.
10. Blair, R.J. (2010). Psychopathy, frustration, and reactive aggression: the role of ventromedial prefrontal cortex. British Journal of Psychology, 101(Pt 3), 383-99.
11. Blair, R.J., Peschardt, K.S., Budhani, S., Mitchell, D.G., Pine, D.S. (2006). The development of psychopathy. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 47(3-4), 262-76.
12. Budhani, S., Richell, R.A., Blair, R.J. (2006). Impaired reversal but intact acquisition: probabilistic response reversal deficits in adult individuals with psychopathy. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115(3), 552-8.
13. Camerer, C.F. (2003). Psychology and economics. Strategizing in the brain. Science, 300(5626), 1673-5.
14. Christakou, A., Brammer, M., Giampietro, V., Rubia, K. (2009). Right ventromedial and dorsolateral prefrontal cortices mediate adaptive decisions under ambiguity by integrating choice utility and outcome evaluation. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(35), 11020-8.
15. Cohen, M.S. (1997). Parametric analysis of fMRI data using linear systems methods. Neuroimage, 6(2), 93-103.
16. Cooper, J.C., Kreps, T.A., Wiebe, T., Pirkl, T., Knutson, B. (2010). When giving is good: ventromedial prefrontal cortex activation for others' intentions. Neuron, 67(3), 511-21.
17. Cox, R.W. (1996). AFNI: software for analysis and visualization of functional magnetic resonance neuroimages. Computers and Biomedical Research, 29(3), 162-73.
18. Crescentini, C., Seyed-Allaei, S., De Pisapia, N., Jovicich, J., Amati, D., Shallice, T. (2011). Mechanisms of rule acquisition and rule following in inductive reasoning. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(21), 7763-74.
19. Crockett, M.J., Clark, L., Tabibnia, G., Lieberman, M.D., Robbins, T.W. (2008). Serotonin modulates behavioral reactions to unfairness. Science, 320(5884), 1739.
20. de Oliveira-Souza, R., Hare, R.D., Bramati, I.E., et al. (2008). Psychopathy as a disorder of the moral brain: fronto-temporo-limbic grey matter reductions demonstrated by voxelbased morphometry. Neuroimage, 40(3), 1202-13.
21. de Quervain, D.J., Fischbacher, U., Treyer, V., et al. (2004). The neural basis of altruistic punishment. Science, 305(5688), 1254-8.
22. Ermer, E., Kiehl, K.A. (2010). Psychopaths are impaired in social exchange and precautionary reasoning. Psychological Science, 21(10), 1399-405.
23. Evans, J. (2008). Dual-processing accounts of reasoning, judgment and social cognition. Annual Review of Psychology, 59, 255-78.
24. Fairchild, G., Hagan, C.C., Walsh, N.D., Passamonti, L., Calder, A.J., Goodyer, I.M. (2013). Brain structure abnormalities in adolescent girls with conduct disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 54(1), 86-95.
25. Fehr, E., Gachter, S. (2002). Altruistic punishment in humans. Nature, 415(6868), 137-40.
26. Finger, E.C., Marsh, A.A., Blair, K.S., et al. (2011). Disrupted reinforcement signaling in the orbitofrontal cortex and caudate in youths with conduct disorder or oppositional defiant disorder and a high level of psychopathic traits. American Journal of Psychiatry, 168(2), 152-62.
27. Finger, E.C., Marsh, A.A., Mitchell, D.G., et al. (2008). Abnormal ventromedial prefrontal cortex function in children with psychopathic traits during reversal learning. Archives of General Psychiatry, 65(5), 586-94.
28. Fowler, J.H., Johnson, T., Smirnov, O. (2005). Human behaviour: egalitarian motive and altruistic punishment. Nature, 433(7021), 1 p following 32; discussion following 32.
29. Frith, C.D., Frith, U. (2008). Implicit and explicit processes in social cognition. Neuron, 60(3), 503-10.
30. Glenn, A.L., Raine, A., Schug, R.A. (2009). The neural correlates of moral decision-making in psychopathy. Molecular Psychiatry, 14(1), 5-6.
31. Goel, V., Dolan, R.J. (2003). Reciprocal neural response within lateral and ventral medial prefrontal cortex during hot and cold reasoning. Neuroimage, 20(4), 2314-21.
32. Gordon, H.L., Baird, A.A., End, A. (2004). Functional differences among those high and low on a trait measure of psychopathy. Biological Psychiatry, 56(7), 516-21.
33. Gospic, K., Mohlin, E., Fransson, P., Petrovic, P., Johannesson, M., Ingvar, M. (2011). Limbic justice-amygdala involvement in immediate rejection in the ultimatum game. PLoS Biology, 9(5), e1001054.
34. Greene, J.D., Morelli, S.A., Lowenberg, K., Nystrom, L.E., Cohen, J.D. (2008). Cognitive load selectively interferes with utilitarian moral judgment. Cognition, 107(3), 1144-54.
35. Hare, R.D. (1991). The Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised. Toronto, Ontario: Multi-Health Systems.
36. Harenski, C.L., Harenski, K.A., Shane, M.S., Kiehl, K.A. (2010). Aberrant neural processing of moral violations in criminal psychopaths. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 119(4), 863-74.
37. Harle, K.M., Sanfey, A.G. (2012). Social economic decision-making across the lifespan: an fMRI investigation. Neuropsychologia, 50(7), 1416-24.
38. Haruno, M., Frith, C.D. (2010). Activity in the amygdala elicited by unfair divisions predicts social value orientation. Nature Neuroscience, 13(2), 160-1.
39. Intrator, J., Hare, R., Stritzke, P., et al. (1997). A brain imaging (single photon emission computerized tomography) study of semantic and affective processing in psychopaths. Biological Psychiatry, 42(2), 96-103.
40. Kaufman, A.S. (1990). K-BIT: Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test. Circle Pines, MN: American Guidance Service.
41. Kiehl, K.A., Smith, A.M., Hare, R.D., et al. (2001). Limbic abnormalities in affective processing by criminal psychopaths as revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Biological Psychiatry, 50(9), 677-84.
42. Koenigs, M., Kruepke, M., Newman, J.P. (2010). Economic decision-making in psychopathy: a comparison with ventromedial prefrontal lesion patients. Neuropsychologia, 48(7), 2198-204.
43. Koenigs, M., Tranel, D. (2007). Irrational economic decision-making after ventromedial prefrontal damage: evidence from the ultimatum game. Journal of Neuroscience, 27(4), 951-6.
44. Langner, O., Dotsch, R., Bijlstra, G., Wigboldus, D.H.J., Hawk, S.T., van Knippenberg, A. (2010). Presentation and validation of the Radboud Faces Database. Cognition and Emotion, 24(8), 1377-88.
45. Lieberman, M.D., Cunningham, W.A. (2009). Type I and type II error concerns in fMRI research: re-balancing the scale. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 4(4), 423-8.
46. Manoach, D.S., Schlaug, G., Siewert, B., et al. (1997). Prefrontal cortex fMRI signal changes are correlated with working memory load. Neuroreport, 8(2), 545-9.
47. Marion, B.E., Sellbom, M., Salekin, R.T., Toomey, J.A., Kucharski, L.T., Duncan, S. (2012). An examination of the association between psychopathy and dissimulation using the MMPI-2-RF validity scales. Law and Human Behavior.
48. Markon, K.E., Chmielewski, M., Miller, C.J. (2011). The reliability and validity of discrete and continuous measures of psychopathology: a quantitative review. Psychological Bulletin, 137(5), 856-79.
49. Marsh, A.A., Cardinale, E.M. (2012). When psychopathy impairs moral judgments: neural responses during judgments about causing fear. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
50. Marsh, A.A., Finger, E.C., Fowler, K.A., et al. (2011). Reduced amygdala-orbitofrontal connectivity during moral judgments in youths with disruptive behavior disorders and psychopathic traits. Psychiatry Research, 194(3), 279-86.
51. Mokros, A., Menner, B., Eisenbarth, H., Alpers, G.W., Lange, K.W., Osterheider, M. (2008). Diminished cooperativeness of psychopaths in a prisoner's dilemma game yields higher rewards. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117(2), 406-13.
52. Oosterbeek, H., Randolf, S., Van De Kuilen, G. (2004). Cultural differences in ultimatum game experiments: evidence from a meta-analysis. Experimental Economics, 7, 171-88.
53. Osumi, T., Nakao, T., Kasuya, Y., Shinoda, J., Yamada, J., Ohira, H. (2012). Amygdala dysfunction attenuates frustration-induced aggression in psychopathic individuals in a non-criminal population. Journal of Affective Disorders, 142(1-3), 331-8.
54. Osumi, T., Ohira, H. (2010). The positive side of psychopathy: emotional detachment in psychopathy and rational decision-making in the ultimatum game. Personality and Individual Differences, 49, 451-6.
55. Patrick, C.J. (2010). Operationalizing the Triarchic Conceptualization of Psychopathy: Preliminary Description of Brief Scales for Assessment of Boldness, Meanness, and Disinhibition. Florida State University.
56. Patrick, C.J., Fowles, D.C., Krueger, R.F. (2009). Triarchic conceptualization of psychopathy: developmental origins of disinhibition, boldness, and meanness. Developmental Psychopathology, 21(3), 913-38.
57. Phillips, M.L., Ladouceur, C.D., Drevets, W.C. (2008). A neural model of voluntary and automatic emotion regulation: implications for understanding the pathophysiology and neurodevelopment of bipolar disorder. Molecular Psychiatry, 13(9), 829, 833-57.
58. Pujol, J., Batalla, I., Contreras-Rodriguez, O., et al. (2012). Breakdown in the brain network subserving moral judgment in criminal psychopathy. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 7(8), 917-23.
59. Rilling, J., Glenn, A., Jairam, M., et al. (2007). Neural correlates of social cooperation and non-cooperation as a function of psychopathy. Biological Psychiatry, 61(11), 1260-71.
60. Sanfey, A.G., Rilling, J.K., Aronson, J.A., Nystrom, L.E., Cohen, J.D. (2003). The neural basis of economic decision-making in the ultimatum game. Science, 300(5626), 1755-8.
61. Schulz, J.F., Fischbacher, U., Thöni, C., Utikal, V. (2012). Affect and fairness: dictator games under cognitive load. Journal of Economic Psychology. doi:10.1016/j.joep.2012.08.007.
62. Seidman, L.J., Yurgelun-Todd, D., Kremen, W.S., et al. (1994). Relationship of prefrontal and temporal lobe MRI measures to neuropsychological performance in chronic schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry, 35(4), 235-46.
63. Sellbom, M., Phillips, T.R. (2013). An examination of the triarchic conceptualization of psychopathy in incarcerated and nonincarcerated samples. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 122(1), 208-14.
64. Skeem, J.L., Polaschek, D.L.L., Patrick, C.J., Lilienfeld, S.O. (2011). Psychopathic personality: bridging the gap between scientific evidence and public policy. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 12, 95-162.
65. Sommer, M., Sodian, B., Dohnel, K., Schwerdtner, J., Meinhardt, J., Hajak, G. (2010). In psychopathic patients emotion attribution modulates activity in outcome-related brain areas. Psychiatry Research, 182(2), 88-95.
66. Stanley, J.H., Wygant, D.B., Sellbom, M. (2013). Elaborating on the construct validity of the triarchic psychopathy measure in a criminal offender sample. Journal of Personality Assessment, 95(4), 343-50.
67. Steinbeis, N., Bernhardt, B.C., Singer, T. (2012). Impulse control and underlying functions of the left DLPFC mediate age-related and age-independent individual differences in strategic social behavior. Neuron, 73(5), 1040-51.
68. Suzuki, S., Niki, K., Fujisaki, S., Akiyama, E. (2011). Neural basis of conditional cooperation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6(3), 338-47.
69. Talairach, J., Tournoux, P. (1988). Co-planar Stereotaxic Atlas of the Human Brain. New York, NY: Thieme.
70. Der Veen, F.M., Sahibdin, P.P. (2011). Dissociation between medial frontal negativity and cardiac responses in the ultimatum game: effects of offer size and fairness. Cognitive, Affective&Behavioral Neuroscience, 11(4), 516-25.
71. Veit, R., Lotze, M., Sewing, S., Missenhardt, H., Gaber, T., Birbaumer, N. (2010). Aberrant social and cerebral responding in a competitive reaction time paradigm in criminal psychopaths. Neuroimage, 49(4), 3365-72.
72. White, S.F., Marsh, A.A., Fowler, K.A., et al. (2012). Reduced amygdala response in youths with disruptive behavior disorders and psychopathic traits: decreased emotional response versus increased top-down attention to nonemotional features. American Journal of Psychiatry, 169(7), 750-8.
73. Widom, C.S. (1977). A methodology for studying noninstitutionalized psychopaths. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 45(4), 674-83.
74. Yang, Y., Raine, A., Colletti, P., Toga, A.W., Narr, K.L. (2011). Morphological alterations in the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala in unsuccessful psychopaths. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 119(3), 546-54.