Neural correlates of proactive and reactive aggression in adolescent twins

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 230-240

  Yang, Yaling ^a   Joshi, Shantanu H ^b   Jahanshad, Neda ^a   Thompson, Paul M ^a   Baker, Laura A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; aggression; cortical thickness; frontal cortex; striatum

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; CLINICAL STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; MALE; ORBITAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; THICKNESS; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; NEOSTRIATUM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGGRESSION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84991746848     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: 10982337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ab.21683     Document Type: Article

References (71)

1. Anderson, N. E., & Kiehl, K. A. (2014). Psychopathy and aggression: When paralimbic dysfunction leads to violence. Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, 17, 369–393. doi: 10.1007/7854_2013_257
2. Baker, L. A., Barton, M., Lozano, D. I., Raine, A., & Fowler, J. H. (2006). The southern california twin register at the university of southern california: II. Twin Research Human Genetics, 9 (6), 933–940. doi: 10.1375/183242706779462912
3. Baker, L. A., Raine, A., Liu, J., & Jacobson, K. C. (2008). Differential genetic and environmental influences on reactive and proactive aggression in children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 36, 1265–1278. doi: 10.1007/s10802-008-9349-1
4. Baker, L. A., Tuvblad, C., Wang, P., Gomez, K., Bezdjian, S., Niv, S., & Raine, A. (2013). The southern california twin register at the university of southern california: III. Twin Research Human Genetics, 16 (1), 336–343. doi: 10.1017/thg.2012.127
5. Bertsch, K., Grothe, M., Prehn, K., Vohs, K., Berger, C., Hauenstein, K., … Herpertz, S. C. (2013). Brain volumes differ between diagnostic groups of violent criminal offenders. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 263, 593–606. doi: 10.1007/s00406-013-0391-6
6. Boccardi, M., Bocchetta, M., Aronen, H. J., Repo-Tiihonen, E., Vaurio, O., Thompson, P. M., … Frisoni, G. B. (2013). Atypical nucleus accumbens morphology in psychopathy: Another limbic piece in the puzzle. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 36 (2), 157–167. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2013.01.008
7. Boccardi, M., Frisoni, G. B., Hare, R. D., Cavedo, E., Najt, P., Pievani, M., … Tiihonen, J. (2011). Cortex and amygdala morphology in psychopathy. Psychiatry Research, 193 (2), 85–92. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.12.013
8. Boccardi, M., Ganzola, R., Rossi, R., Sabattoli, F., Laakso, M. P., Repo-Tiihonen, E., … Tiihonen, J. (2010). Abnormal hippocampal shape in offenders with psychopathy. Human Brain Mapping, 31 (3), 438–447. doi: 10.1002/hbm.20877
9. Boes, A. D., Tranel, D., Anderson, S. W., & Nopoulos, P. (2008). Right anterior cingulate: A neuroanatomical correlate of aggression and defiance in boys. Behavavioral Neuroscience, 122 (3), 677–684. doi: 10.1037/0735-7044.122.3.677
10. Botvinick, M. M. (2007). Conflict monitoring and decision making: Reconciling two perspectives on anterior cingulate function. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 7 (4), 356–366. doi: 10.3758/CABN.7.4.356
11. Brower, M. C., & Price, B. H. (2001). Neuropsychiatry of frontal lobe dysfunction in violent and criminal behaviour: A critical review. Journal of Neurolology, Neurosurgery, & Psychiatry, 71 (6), 720–726. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.71.6.720
12. Buchmann, A., Hohmann, S., Brandeis, D., Banaschewski, T., & Poustka, L. (2014). Aggression in children and adolescents. Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, 17, 421–442. doi: 10.1007/7854_2013_261
13. Chu, A., Cui, J., & Dinov, I. D. (2009). SOCR analyses: Implementation and demonstration of a new graphical statistics educational toolkit. Journal of Statistical Software, 30 (3), 1–19. doi: 10.18837/jss.v030.i03
14. Cohn, M. D., Popma, A., van den Brink, W., Pape, L. E., Kindt, M., van Domburgh, L., … Veltman, D. J. (2013). Fear conditioning, persistence of disruptive behavior and psychopathic traits: An fMRI study. Translational Psychiatry, 3, e319. doi: 10.1038/tp.2013.89
15. Coie, J., & Dodge, K. (1998). Aggression and antisocial behavior. In Eisenberg W. D. N. (Ed.), Handbook of child psychology (Vol. 3, pp. 779–862). Toronto: Wiley.
16. Cope, L. M., Ermer, E., Gaudet, L. M., Steele, V. R., Eckhardt, A. L., Arbabshirani, M. R., … Kiehl, K. A. (2014). Abnormal brain structure in youth who commit homicide. Neuroimage: Clinical, 4, 800–807. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2014.05.002
17. Devinsky, O., Morrell, M. J., & Vogt, B. A. (1995). Contributions of anterior cingulate cortex to behaviour. Brain, 118 (Pt 1), 279–306. doi: 10.1093/brain/118.1.279
18. Dolan, M., Deakin, J. F. W., Roberts, N., & Anderson, I. M. (2002). Quantitative frontal and temporal structural MRI studies in personality-disordered offenders and control subjects. Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging, 116, 133–149. doi: 10.1016/S0925-4927(02)00085-9
19. Ducharme, S., Hudziak, J. J., Botteron, K. N., Albaugh, M. D., Nguyen, T. V., Karama, S., & Evans, A. C. (2012). Decreased regional cortical thickness and thinning rate are associated with inattention symptoms in healthy children. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 51 (1), 18–27 e12. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2011.09.022
20. Fahim, C., He, Y., Yoon, U., Chen, J., Evans, A., & Perusse, D. (2011). Neuroanatomy of childhood disruptive behavior disorders. Aggressive Behavior, 37 (4), 326–337. doi: 10.1002/ab.20396
21. Fairchild, G., Hagan, C. C., Walsh, N. D., Passamonti, L., Calder, A. J., & Goodyer, I. M. (2012). Brain structure abnormalities in adolescent girls with conduct disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, doi: 10.1111/j.1469–7610.2012.02617.x
22. 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. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2012.02617.x
23. Fairchild, G., Passamonti, L., Hurford, G., Hagan, C. C., von dem Hagen, E. A., van Goozen, S. H., … Calder, A. J. (2011). Brain structure abnormalities in early-onset and adolescent-onset conduct disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 168 (6), 624–633. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2010.10081184
24. Fairchild, G., Stobbe, Y., van Goozen, S. H., Calder, A. J., & Goodyer, I. M. (2010). Facial expression recognition, fear conditioning, and startle modulation in female subjects with conduct disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 68 (3), 272–279. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.02.019
25. Fehr, T., Achtziger, A., Roth, G., & Struber, D. (2014). Neural correlates of the empathic perceptual processing of realistic social interaction scenarios displayed from a first-order perspective. Brain Research, 1583, 141–158. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2014.04.041
26. Fischl, B. (2012). FreeSurfer. Neuroimage, 62 (2), 774–781. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.021
27. Fischl, B., Salat, D. H., Busa, E., Albert, M., Dieterich, M., Haselgrove, C., … Dale, A. M. (2002). Whole brain segmentation: Automated labeling of neuroanatomical structures in the human brain. Neuron, 33 (3), 341–355. doi: 10.1016/S0896-6273(02)00569-X
28. Gatzke-Kopp, L. M., Beauchaine, T. P., Shannon, K. E., Chipman, J., Fleming, A. P., Crowell, S. E., … Aylward, E. (2009). Neurological correlates of reward responding in adolescents with and without externalizing behavior disorders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118 (1), 203–213. doi: 10.1037/a0014378
29. Gautam, P., Warner, T. D., Kan, E. C., & Sowell, E. R. (2015). Executive function and cortical thickness in youths prenatally exposed to cocaine, alcohol and tobacco. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 155–165. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2015.01.010
30. Glenn, A. L., Raine, A., Yaralian, P. S., & Yang, Y. (2009). Increased volume of the striatum in psychopathic individuals. Biological Psychiatry, 67, 52–58. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.06.018
31. Gorka, A. X., Norman, R. E., Radtke, S. R., Carre, J. M., & Hariri, A. R. (2015). Anterior cingulate cortex gray matter volume mediates an association between 2D:4D ratio and trait aggression in women but not men. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 56, 148–156. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.03.004
32. Gregory, S., ffytche, D., Simmons, A., Kumari, V., Howard, M., Hodgins, S., & Blackwood, N. (2012). The antisocial brain: Psychopathy matters. Archives of General Psychiatry, 69 (9), 962–972. doi: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2012.222
33. Hawkins, K. A., & Trobst, K. K. (2000). Frontal lobe dysfunction and aggression: Conceptual issues and research findings. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 5, 147–157. doi: 10.1016/S1359-1789(98)00033-0
34. Hoptman, M. J., Volavka, J., Czobor, P., Gerig, G., Chakos, M., Blocher, J., … Bilder, R. M. (2006). Aggression and quantitative MRI measures of caudate in patients with chronic schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. The Journal of Neuropsychiatry of Clinical Neurosciences, 18 (4), 509–515. doi: 10.1176/appi.neuropsych.18.4.509
35. Howner, K., Eskildsen, S. F., Fischer, H., Dierks, T., Wahlund, L. O., Jonsson, T., … Kristiansson, M. (2012). Thinner cortex in the frontal lobes in mentally disordered offenders. Psychiatry Research, 203 (2–3), 126–131. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2011.12.011
36. Hudziak, J. J., van Beijsterveldt, C. E., Bartels, M., Rietveld, M. J., Rettew, D. C., Derks, E. M., & Boomsma, D. I. (2003). Individual differences in aggression: Genetic analyses by age, gender, and informant in 3-, 7-, and 10-year-old Dutch twins. Behavioural Genetics 33 (5), 575–589.
37. Huebner, T., Vloet, T. D., Marx, I., Konrad, K., Fink, G. R., Herpertz, S. C., & Herpertz-Dahlmann, B. (2008). Morphometric brain abnormalities in boys with conduct disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47 (5), 540–547. doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181676545
38. Israel, S., Moffitt, T. E., Belsky, D. W., Hancox, R. J., Poulton, R., Roberts, B., … Caspi, A. (2014). Translating personality psychology to help personalize preventive medicine for young adult patients. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106 (3), 484–498. doi: 10.1037/a0035687
39. Kolla, N. J., Gregory, S., Attard, S., Blackwood, N., & Hodgins, S. (2014). Disentangling possible effects of childhood physical abuse on gray matter changes in violent offenders with psychopathy. Psychiatry Research, 221 (2), 123–126. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2013.11.008
40. Kuperberg, G. R., Broome, M. R., McGuire, P. K., David, A. S., Eddy, M., Ozawa, F., … Fischl, B. (2003). Regionally localized thinning of the cerebral cortex in schizophrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry, 60 (9), 878–888. doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.60.9.878
41. Ligthart, L., Bartels, M., Hoekstra, R. A., Hudziak, J. J., & Boomsma, D. I. (2005). Genetic contributions to subtypes of aggression. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 8 (5), 483–491. doi: 10.1375/183242705774310169
42. Loukas, A., Paulos, S., & Robinson, S. (2005). Early adolescent social and overt aggression: Examining the roles of social anxiety and maternal psychological control. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 34 (4), 335–345. doi: 10.1007/s10964-005-5757-2
43. Ly, M., Motzkin, J. C., Philippi, C. L., Kirk, G. R., Newman, J. P., Kiehl, K. A., & Koenigs, M. (2012). Cortical thinning in psychopathy. American Journal of Psychiatry, 169 (7), 743–749. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.11111627
44. Matson, J. L., & Cervantes, P. E. (2014). Assessing aggression in persons with autism spectrum disorders: An overview. Research in Devevlopmental Disabilities, 35 (12), 3269–3275. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2014.08.004
45. Mogenson, G. J., Jones, D. L., & Yim, C. Y. (1980). From motivation to action: Functional interface between the limbic system and the motor system. Progress in Neurobiology, 14 (2–3), 69–97. doi: 10.1016/0301-0082(80)90018-0
46. Murray, A. L., Obsuth, I., Zirk-Sadowski, J., Ribeaud, D., & Eisner, M. (2016). Developmental relations between ADHD symptoms and reactive versus proactive aggression across childhood and adolescence. Journal of Attention Disorders, Sep 1. [Epub ahead of print]. doi: 10.1177/1087054716666323
47. Nagin, D., & Tremblay, R. E. (1999). Trajectories of boys' physical aggression, opposition, and hyperactivity on the path to physically violent and nonviolent juvenile delinquency. Child Development, 70 (5), 1181–1196. doi: 10.1111/1467-8624.00086
48. Panizzon, M. S., Fennema-Notestine, C., Eyler, L. T., Jernigan, T. L., Prom-Wormley, E., Neale, M., … Kremen, W. S. (2009). Distinct genetic influences on cortical surface area and cortical thickness. Cerebral Cortex, 19 (11), 2728–2735. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhp026
49. Preston, S. D., & de Waal, F. B. (2002). Empathy: Its ultimate and proximate bases. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25 (1), 1–20; discussion 20–71. doi: 10.1017/S0140525×02000018
50. Raine, A., Dodge, K., Loeber, R., Gatzke-Kopp, L., Lynam, D., Reynolds, C., … Liu, J. (2006). The reactive-Proactive aggression questionnaire: Differential correlates of reactive and proactive aggression in adolescent boys. Aggressive Behavior, 32 (2), 159–171. doi: 10.1002/ab.20115
51. Raine, A., Lencz, T., Bihrle, S., LaCasse, L., & Colletti, P. (2000). Reduced prefrontal gray matter volume and reduced autonomic activity in antisocial personality disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry, 57 (2), 119–127; discussion 128–119. doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.57.2.119
52. Rodriguiz, R. M., Chu, R., Caron, M. G., & Wetsel, W. C. (2004). Aberrant responses in social interaction of dopamine transporter knockout mice. Behavioural Brain Research, 148 (1–2), 185–198. doi: 10.1016/S0166-4328(03)00187-6
53. Rosas, H. D., Liu, A. K., Hersch, S., Glessner, M., Ferrante, R. J., Salat, D. H., … Fischl, B. (2002). Regional and progressive thinning of the cortical ribbon in Huntington's disease. Neurology, 58 (5), 695–701. doi: 10.1212/WNL.58.5.695
54. Salat, D. H., Buckner, R. L., Snyder, A. Z., Greve, D. N., Desikan, R. S., Busa, E., … Fischl, B. (2004). Thinning of the cerebral cortex in aging. Cerebral Cortex, 14, 721–730. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhh032
55. Schiffer, B., Muller, B. W., Scherbaum, N., Hodgins, S., Forsting, M., Wiltfang, J., … Leygraf, N. (2011). Disentangling structural brain alterations associated with violent behavior from those associated with substance use disorders. Archieves of General Psychiatry, 68 (10), 1039–1049. doi: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.61
56. Sterzer, P., Stadler, C., Poustka, F., & Kleinschmidt, A. (2007). A structural neural deficit in adolescents with conduct disorder and its association with lack of empathy. Neuroimage, 37 (1), 335–342. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.04.043
57. Tuvblad, C., Raine, A., Zheng, M., & Baker, L. A. (2009). Genetic and environmental stability differs in reactive and proactive aggression. Aggressive Behavior, 35 (6), 437–452. doi: 10.1002/ab.20319
58. van den Bos, W., Vahl, P., Guroglu, B., van Nunspeet, F., Colins, O., Markus, M., … Crone, E. A. (2014). Neural correlates of social decision-making in severely antisocial adolescents. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 9 (12), 2059–2066. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsu003
59. Van der Graaff, J., Branje, S., De Wied, M., & Meeus, W. (2012). The moderating role of empathy in the association between parental support and adolescent aggressive and delinquent behavior. Aggressive Behavior, 38 (5), 368–377. doi: 10.1002/ab.21435
60. Viding, E., Seara-Cardoso, A., & McCrory, E. J. (2014). Antisocial and callous behaviour in children. Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, 17, 395–419. doi: 10.1007/7854_2013_266
61. Visser, T. A., Ohan, J. L., Whittle, S., Yucel, M., Simmons, J. G., & Allen, N. B. (2014). Sex differences in structural brain asymmetry predict overt aggression in early adolescents. Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, 9 (4), 553–560. doi: 10.1093/scan/nst013
62. Walhovd, K. B., Tamnes, C. K., Ostby, Y., Due-Tonnessen, P., & Fjell, A. M. (2012). Normal variation in behavioral adjustment relates to regional differences in cortical thickness in children. European Child & Adolescenct Psychiatry, 21, 133–140. doi: 10.1007/s00787-012-0241-5
63. Wallace, G. L., White, S. F., Robustelli, B., Sinclair, S., Hwang, S., Martin, A., & Blair, R. J. (2014). Cortical and subcortical abnormalities in youths with conduct disorder and elevated callous-unemotional traits. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, (4), 456–465 e451. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2013.12.008
64. Yang, Y., Joshi, A. A., Joshi, S. H., Baker, L. A., Narr, K. L., Raine, A., … Damasio, H. (2012a). Genetic and environmental influences on cortical thickness among 14-year-old twins. Neuroreport, 23 (12), 702–706. doi: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328355a62a
65. Yang, Y., Narr, K. L., Baker, L. A., Joshi, S. H., Jahanshad, N., Raine, A., & Thompson, P. M. (2015). Frontal and striatal alterations associated with psychopathic traits in adolescents. Psychiatry Research, 231 (3), 333–340. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2015.01.017
66. Yang, Y., & Raine, A. (2009). Prefrontal structural and functional brain imaging findings in antisocial, violent, and psychopathic individuals: A meta-analysis. Psychiatry Research, 174 (2), 81–88. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2009.03.012
67. Yang, Y., Raine, A., Colletti, P., Toga, A. W., & Narr, K. L. (2009). Abnormal temporal and prefrontal cortical gray matter thinning in psychopaths. Molecular Psychiatry, (6), 561–562, 555. doi: 10.1038/mp.2009.12
68. Yang, Y., Raine, A., Han, C., Schug, R. A., Toga, A. W., & Narr, K. L. (2010). Reduced hippocampal and parahippocampal volumes in murderers with schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 182 (1), 9–13. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2009.10.013
69. Yang, Y., Raine, A., Joshi, A. A., Joshi, S., Chang, Y. T., Schug, R. A., … Narr, K. L. (2012b). Frontal information flow and connectivity in psychopathy. British Journal of Psychiatry, 201 (5), 408–409. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.111.107128
70. Yang, Y., Raine, A., Lencz, T., Bihrle, S., LaCasse, L., & Colletti, P. (2005). Volume reduction in prefrontal gray matter in unsuccessful criminal psychopaths. Biological Psychiatry, 57 (10), 1103–1108. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.01.021
71. Yang, Y., Raine, A., Narr, K. L., Colletti, P., & Toga, A. W. (2009). Localization of deformations within the amygdala in individuals with psychopathy. Archives of General Psychiatry, 66 (9), 986–994. doi: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2009.110