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JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
Volume 46, Issue 9, Pages 972-981Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00398.x
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ADHD; aggression; antisocial behavior; orbitofrontal cortex; psychopathy; response reversal
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Background: Previous work has inconsistently reported difficulties with response reversal/extinction in children with psychopathic tendencies. Method: We tested the hypothesis that the degree of impairment seen in children with psychopathic tendencies is a function of the salience of contingency change. We investigated the performance of children with psychopathic tendencies on a novel probabilistic response reversal task involving four conditions with gradated reward-punishment contingencies (100-0, 90-10, 80-20 and 70-30; i.e., for the 100-0 contingency, responding to one object is always rewarded while responding to the other is always punished). results: In line with predictions, the impairment seen in the children with psychopathic tendencies was an inverse function of the salience of the contingency change. Conclusions: We suggest that this data is consistent with suggestions of subtle orbital frontal cortex impairment in children with psychopathic tendencies.
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