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NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
Volume 32, Issue 3, Pages 454-465Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2007.08.003
Keywords
facial affect; fearful expression; antisocial; amygdala; psychopathy; emotion; meta-analysis
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [ZIAMH002860] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- Intramural NIH HHS [Z99 MH999999] Funding Source: Medline
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Individuals with disorders marked by antisocial behavior frequently show deficits in recognizing displays of facial affect. Antisociality may be associated with specific deficits in identifying fearful expressions, which would implicate dysfunction in neural structures that subserve fearful expression processing. A meta-analysis of 20 studies was conducted to assess: (a) if antisocial populations show any consistent deficits in recognizing six emotional expressions; (b) beyond any generalized impairment, whether specific fear recognition deficits are apparent; and (c) if deficits in fear recognition are a function of task difficulty. Results show a robust link between antisocial behavior and specific deficits in recognizing fearful expressions. This impairment cannot be attributed solely to task difficulty. These results suggest dysfunction among antisocial individuals in specified neural substrates, namely the amygdala, involved in processing fearful facial affect. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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