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  Neural correlates of risk taking in violent criminal offenders characterized by emotional hypo- and hyper-reactivity

Prehn, K., Schlagenhauf, F., Schulze, L., Berger, C., Vohs, K., Fleischer, M., et al. (2013). Neural correlates of risk taking in violent criminal offenders characterized by emotional hypo- and hyper-reactivity. Social Neuroscience, 8(2), 136-147. doi:10.1080/17470919.2012.686923.

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Prehn, Kristin1, Author
Schlagenhauf, Florian2, 3, Author           
Schulze, Lars1, 3, 4, Author
Berger, Christoph5, Author
Vohs, Knut6, Author
Fleischer, Monika5, Author
Hauenstein, Karlheinz7, Author
Keiper, Peter5, Author
Domes, Gregor8, Author
Herpertz, Sabine C.9, Author
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1Cluster Languages of Emotion, FU Berlin, Germany, ou_persistent22              
2Department Psychiatry, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany, ou_persistent22              
3Max Planck Fellow Group Cognitive and Affective Control of Behavioural Adaptation, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society, Leipzig, DE, ou_1753350              
4Department of Education and Psychology, FU Berlin, Germany, ou_persistent22              
5Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Rostock, Germany, ou_persistent22              
6Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, ou_persistent22              
7Department of Radiology, University of Rostock, Germany, ou_persistent22              
8Department of Biological Psychology, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany, ou_persistent22              
9Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany, ou_persistent22              

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Free keywords: Antisocial personality disorder; Borderline personality disorder; Financial decision making; fMRI; rACC
 Abstract: Recent approaches suggest that emotional reactivity can be used to differentiate between subgroups of individuals who are at risk for showing elevated levels of aggression and violence. In this study, we examined how emotion governs decision making within two subgroups of antisocial criminal offenders with either emotional hypo- or hyper-reactivity compared with healthy, noncriminal controls. Offenders were recruited from high-security forensic treatment facilities and penal institutions and underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging during a financial decision-making task. In this task, participants were required to choose between low-risk (bonds) and high-risk alternatives (stocks). Bonds were always the safe choice; stocks could win or lose, with a varying degree of uncertainty. We found that emotionally hypo-reactive offenders differed most from healthy controls by showing diminished neural activation in the rostral anterior cingulate cortex in response to uncertainty as well as decreased activity in the prefrontal cortex when trying to regulate their behavior accordingly (i.e., when consistently choosing “safe alternatives”). Hence, the data indicate that emotionally hypo-reactive offenders (with psychopathic traits) constitute a special subgroup within antisocial offenders characterized in particular by a limited capacity to emotionally represent uncertainty and to anticipate punishment.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2012-06-292013-03
 Publication Status: Issued
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 Rev. Type: Peer
 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2012.686923
PMID: 22747189
Other: Epub 2012
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Title: Social Neuroscience
  Abbreviation : Soc Neurosci
Source Genre: Journal
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Publ. Info: Hove : Psychology Press
Pages: - Volume / Issue: 8 (2) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 136 - 147 Identifier: ISSN: 1747-0919
CoNE: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/journals/resource/1747-0919