Background Men with antisocial personality disorder show lifelong abnormalities in adaptive
decision making guided by the weighing up of reward and punishment information. Among …

In a previous study (Lotze et al., 2007) we described dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)
activation in healthy subjects during retaliation in a competitive reaction time task …

Context The population of men who display persistent antisocial and violent behavior is
heterogeneous. Callous-unemotional traits in childhood and psychopathic traits in …

Results of meta-analyses suggested subtle deficits in cognitive control among antisocial
individuals. Because almost all studies focused on children with conduct problems or adult …

Criminal behaviour poses a big challenge for society. A thorough understanding of the
neurobiological mechanisms underlying criminality could optimize its prevention and …

Objective Frontostriatal circuitry is critical to learning processes, and its disruption may
underlie maladaptive decision making and the generation of psychotic symptoms in …

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 …

Psychopathy is a personality disorder associated with callous and impulsive behavior and
criminal recidivism. It has long been theorized that psychopaths have deficits in processing …

Psychopathic individuals are notorious for their controlled goal-directed aggressive
behavior. Yet, during social challenges, they often show uncontrolled emotional behavior …

Psychopathy is a constellation of self-serving attitudes and antisocial behaviors with little
regard to cost to self and others. Might this symptomatology arise in part from an …