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Inhibitory control and negative emotional processing in psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder.

Verona, Edelyn, Sprague, Jenessa, Sadeh, Naomi·2012·Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Abstract

The field of personality disorders has had a long-standing interest in understanding interactions between emotion and inhibitory control, as well as neurophysiological indices of these processes. More work in particular is needed to clarify differential deficits in offenders with antisocial personality disorder (APD) who differ on psychopathic traits, as APD and psychopathy are considered separate, albeit related, syndromes. Evidence of distinct neurobiological processing in these disorders would have implications for etiology-based personality disorder taxonomies in future psychiatric classification systems. To inform this area of research, we recorded event-related brain potentials during an emotional-linguistic Go/No-Go task to examine modulation of negative emotional processing by inhibitory control in three groups: psychopathy (n = 14), APD (n = 16), and control (n = 15). In control offenders, inhibitory control demands (No-Go vs. Go) modulated frontal-P3 amplitude to negative emotional words, indicating appropriate prioritization of inhibition over emotional processing. In contrast, the psychopathic group showed blunted processing of negative emotional words regardless of inhibitory control demands, consistent with research on emotional deficits in psychopathy. Finally, the APD group demonstrated enhanced processing of negative emotion words in both Go and No-Go trials, suggesting a failure to modulate negative emotional processing when inhibitory control is required. Implications for emotion-cognition interactions and putative etiological processes in these personality disorders are discussed.

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Authors
Verona, E., Sprague, J., & Sadeh, N.
Affiliations
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
Venue
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Published
2012-05
Volume
121
Issue
2
Pages
498-510
ISSN
  • 0021-843X (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-1846
OpenAlex
W2087629126
Cited by
118
References
9
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FWCI
10.50
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Abnormal Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • University of Illinois
  • National Institute of Mental Health (F31 MH086178)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Keywords
inhibitory control, psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder, emotion-cognition interaction, event-related potentials, P300, go/no-go task, emotional words, offenders
MeSH terms
Adult, Aggression, Analysis of Variance, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Cognition, Electrodes, Emotions, Evoked Potentials, Female, Humans, Impulsive Behavior, Inhibition, Psychological, Male, Negativism, Psychomotor Performance, Case-Control Studies, Young Adult, Criminals

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