Reduced spontaneous but relatively normal deliberate vicarious representations in psychopathy
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Reduced spontaneous but relatively normal deliberate vicarious representations in psychopathy
Psychopathy is a personality disorder associated with a profound lack of empathy. Neuroscientists have associated empathy and its interindividual variation with how strongly participants activate brain regions involved in their own actions, emotions and sensations while viewing those of others. Here we compared brain activity of 18 psychopathic offenders with 26 control subjects while viewing v...
متن کاملReply: Spontaneous versus deliberate vicarious representations: different routes to empathy in psychopathy and autism.
Sir, We thank Gillespie et al. (2014) for their letter. They summarize data that suggest that in autism, vicarious activations can be relatively normal under instructions explicitly encouraging vicarious processes, while being abnormal in conditions in which instructions do not. This points to an important opportunity to improve our understanding of empathy—both with regards to deficits in pati...
متن کاملLETTER TO THE EDITOR Spontaneous versus deliberate vicarious representations: different routes to empathy in psychopathy and autism
Sir, We read the article recently published by Meffert et al. (2013) with great interest. The authors used functional MRI to investigate vicarious emotional representation in psychopathic offenders, scanning 18 psychopaths and 26 non-offending control subjects. Participants were either presented with video clips of short emotional interactions or experienced similar interactions themselves. Res...
متن کاملLETTER TO THE EDITOR Reply: Spontaneous versus deliberate vicarious representations: different routes to empathy in psychopathy and autism
Sir, We thank Gillespie et al. (2014) for their letter. They summarize data that suggest that in autism, vicarious activations can be relatively normal under instructions explicitly encouraging vicarious processes, while being abnormal in conditions in which instructions do not. This points to an important opportunity to improve our understanding of empathy—both with regards to deficits in pati...
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Linking psychopathy to a specific brain abnormality could have significant clinical, legal, and scientific implications. Theories on the neurobiological basis of the disorder typically propose dysfunction in a circuit involving ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC). However, to date there is limited brain imaging data to directly test whether psychopathy may indeed be associated with any struc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brain
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1460-2156,0006-8950
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awt190