Gray matter changes in right superior temporal gyrus in criminal psychopaths. Evidence from voxel-based morphometry

Müller, Jürgen; Gänßbauer, Susanne; Sommer, Monika; Döhnel, Katrin; Weber, Tatjana; Schmidt‐Wilcke, Tobias; Hajak, Göran

doi:10.1016/j.pscychresns.2007.08.010

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“…De Oliveira-Souza et al (2008 found the reduced GM volume in the frontopolar cortex with the area of the vmPFC and orbitofrontal cortex. The reduction in the GM in the right dorsal ACC and dorsolateral PFC bilaterally was confirmed by Muller et al (2008). Many other studies have confirmed that psychopathy is associated with a reduction in the prefrontal GM, especially in the subregions of the vmPFC and ACC (Boccardi et al, 2011;Ly et al, 2012;Ermer et al, 2012).…”

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Dysfunctional Love in Psychopathic Criminals: The Neural Basis

Gawda

2012

Neuroquantology

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This study focused on the description of love by individuals diagnosed with psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). The aim of the study was to test the hypothesis that psychopathic individuals have ambiguous, ambivalent, and dysfunctional representation of love, which is expressed in their emotional language. The study participants consisted of 60 prison inmates with ASPD, 40 prison inmates without ASPD, and 60 men without antisocial tendencies who described situations involving love. The descriptions of love expressed in the narratives were analyzed, and a comparison of the three groups revealed differences between inmates with psychopathy and ASPD, inmates without psychopathy and ASPD, and the control group. The psychopathic individuals described love as an unclear complex emotion, strong, and with and inappropriate valence and high self-concentration. The description of love showed the lack of clear understanding of the situation of love, people involved in this situation, and the results. This dysfunctional form of love presented by individuals with psychopathy has been discussed in terms of their neurobiological deficits related to the prefrontal cortex, temporal lobes, amygdala, grey matter structure, and limbic abnormalities.

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Dysfunctional Love in Psychopathic Criminals: The Neural Basis

Gawda

2012

Neuroquantology

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“…Two recent studies using voxel-based morphology have also found reduced grey matter volume in the PFC of psychopathic people. 7,8 Overall, prefrontal deficits have been argued to contribute to the poor decision-making, emotional dysregulation, and impaired moral judgment in psychopathic people.…”

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The Neurobiology of Psychopathy: A Neurodevelopmental Perspective

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Highlights • People with psychopathic personality are characterized by a constellation of traits including interpersonal-affective features (for example, superficial charm, manipulativeness, and lack of affect and emotion) and antisocial features (for example, impulsivity and aggression). • Cognitive and affective-emotional processing deficits associated with brain abnormalities, particularly structural and functional impairments in the amygdala and orbitofrontal-ventromedial prefrontal cortex, have been found in people with psychopathy. • Psychopathy may have a neurodevelopmental basis, and future molecular genetic studies identifying genes' coding for early brain abnormalities, together with longitudinal imaging studies, are needed to further substantiate this neurodevelopmental hypothesis.

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“…12–14 If neural mechanisms leading to structural abnormalities in the frontal and temporal structures are one of the main neurobiological causes of psychopathy, structural deficits should contribute to response perseveration in individuals with psychopathy. Thus, it is hypothesized that there will be exaggerated negative correlations between cortical thickness of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (PFC), orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), and the anterior temporal cortex and WCST perseverative error scores in individuals with psychopathy relative to healthy-comparison subjects.…”

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Abnormal Structural Correlates of Response Perseveration in Individuals With Psychopathy

Yang¹,

Raine²,

Colletti³

et al. 2011

Journal of Neuropsychiatry

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Structural deficits in the frontotemporal network have been shown in individuals with psychopathy and are posited to contribute to neuropsychological impairments such as response perseveration. However, no study to date has examined structural correlates of response perseveration in individuals with psychopathy. In this structural MRI study, the authors found higher correlations between increased response perseveration and reduced cortical thickness in the orbitofrontal and anterior temporal regions in individuals with psychopathy than in healthy-comparison subjects. The findings provide preliminary evidence suggesting potential contributions of frontotemporal structural deficits in neurocognitive impairment with perseveration in individuals with psychopathy.

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Gray matter changes in right superior temporal gyrus in criminal psychopaths. Evidence from voxel-based morphometry

Cited by 138 publications

References 39 publications

Dysfunctional Love in Psychopathic Criminals: The Neural Basis

Dysfunctional Love in Psychopathic Criminals: The Neural Basis

The Neurobiology of Psychopathy: A Neurodevelopmental Perspective

Abnormal Structural Correlates of Response Perseveration in Individuals With Psychopathy

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