Psychopathy

Stuart F. White; James R. Blair

doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.56032-2

Psychopathy

Stuart F. White, James R. Blair

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Abstract

Psychopathy is a developmental disorder associated with increased risk of instrumental and reactive aggression and with chronic and violent antisocial behavior in both youth and adults. Individuals with psychopathy show specific impairments in stimulus-reinforcement learning, emotional processing, and moral decision making. These deficits have been tied to dysfunctional amygdala response and to problems appropriately representing reinforcement expectancies in ventromedial prefrontal cortex. While treatment recommendations are currently sparse, recent work has shown that previous assessments of treatment amenability in this population may have been overly pessimistic.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition
Publisher	Elsevier Inc.
Pages	451-456
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9780080970875
ISBN (Print)	9780080970868
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.56032-2
State	Published - Mar 26 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Aggression
Antisocial behavior
Antisocial personality disorder
Callous-unemotional traits
Conduct disorder
Psychopathy
Violence

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Social Sciences(all)

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