作者
Niels Birbaumer, Ralf Veit, Martin Lotze, Michael Erb, Christiane Hermann, Wolfgang Grodd, Herta Flor
发表日期
2005/7/1
期刊
Archives of general psychiatry
卷号
62
期号
7
页码范围
799-805
出版商
American Medical Association
简介
Context
Psychopaths belong to a larger group of persons with antisocial personality disorder and are characterized by an inability to have emotional involvement and by the repeated violation of the rights of others. It was hypothesized that this behavior might be the consequence of deficient fear conditioning.
Objective
To study the cerebral, peripheral, and subjective correlates of fear conditioning in criminal psychopaths and healthy control subjects.
Design
An aversive differential pavlovian delay conditioning paradigm with slides of neutral faces serving as conditioned and painful pressure as unconditioned stimuli.
Setting
The Department of Medical Psychology at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Participants
Ten male psychopaths as defined by the Hare Psychopathy Checklist–Revised and 10 age- and education-matched healthy male controls. The psychopaths were criminal offenders on bail and …
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