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Facial emotion processing in criminal psychopathy: Preliminary functional magnetic resonance imaging study

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Deeley, Quinton, Daly, Eileen, Surguladze, Simon, Tunstall, Nigel, Mezey, Gill, Beer, Dominic, Ambikapathy, Anita, Robertson, Dene +7 more·2006·British Journal of Psychiatry

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Background: It has been suggested that people with psychopathic disorders lack empathy because they have deficits in processing distress cues (e.g. fearful facial expressions). Aims: To investigate brain function when individuals with psychopathy and a control group process facial emotion. Method: Using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging we compared six people scoring ⩾25 on the Hare Psychopathy Checklist–Revised and nine non-psychopathic healthy volunteers during an implicit emotion processing task using fearful, happy and neutral faces. Results: The psychopathy group showed significantly less activation than the control group in fusiform and extrastriate cortices when processing both facial emotions. However, emotion type affected response pattern. Both groups increased fusiform and extrastriate cortex activation when processing happy faces compared with neutral faces, but this increase was significantly smaller in the psychopathy group. In contrast, when processing fearful faces compared with neutral faces, the control group showed increased activation but the psychopathy group decreased activation in the fusiform gyrus. Conclusions: People with psychopathy have biological differences from controls when processing facial emotion, and the pattern of response differs according to emotion type.

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Deeley, Q., Daly, E., Surguladze, S., Tunstall, N., Mezey, G., Beer, D., Ambikapathy, A., Robertson, D., Giampietro, V., Brammer, M. J., Clarke, A., Dowsett, J., Fahy, T., Phillips, M. L., & Murphy, D. G.
Affiliations
  • King's College London (GB)
  • St George's, University of London (GB)
  • National Health Service (GB)
  • South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
  • University of Pittsburgh (US)
Corresponding author
Murphy, Declan G.
Venue
British Journal of Psychiatry
Published
2006-12
Volume
189
Issue
6
Pages
533-539
ISSN
  • 0007-1250 (ISSN-L)
  • 1472-1465
OpenAlex
W2128034453
Cited by
176
References
42
Citations by year
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FWCI
12.53
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • The British Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) (submittedVersion)
  • Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Keywords
psychopathy, emotional face processing, facial expressions, fear, happiness, fusiform gyrus, extrastriate cortex, implicit emotion processing, empathy deficits, Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, brain activation
MeSH terms
Antisocial Personality Disorder, Brain Mapping, Emotions, Facial Expression, Forensic Psychiatry, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Recognition, Psychology

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