Psychopathy is associated with fear-specific reductions in neural activity during affective perspective-taking.
Emotion
Empathy
Fmri
Psychopathology
Psychopathy
Social cognition
Journal
NeuroImage
ISSN: 1095-9572
Titre abrégé: Neuroimage
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9215515
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
12 2020
12 2020
Historique:
received:
03
03
2020
revised:
18
08
2020
accepted:
31
08
2020
pubmed:
9
9
2020
medline:
9
3
2021
entrez:
8
9
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Psychopathic individuals are notorious for their callous disregard for others' emotions. Prior research has linked psychopathy to deficits in affective mechanisms underlying empathy (e.g., affective sharing), yet research relating psychopathy to cognitive mechanisms underlying empathy (e.g., affective perspective-taking and Theory of Mind) requires further clarification. To elucidate the neurobiology of cognitive mechanisms of empathy in psychopathy, we administered an fMRI task and tested for global as well as emotion-specific deficits in affective perspective-taking. Adult male incarcerated offenders (N = 94) viewed images of two people interacting, with one individual's face obscured by a shape. Participants were cued to either identify the emotion of the obscured individual or identify the shape from one of two emotion or shape choices presented on each trial. Target emotions included anger, fear, happiness, sadness, and neutral. Contrary to predictions, psychopathy was unrelated to neural activity in the Affective Perspective-taking > Shape contrast. In line with predictions, psychopathy was negatively related to task accuracy during affective perspective-taking for fear, happiness, and sadness. Psychopathy was related to reduced hemodynamic activity exclusively during fear perspective-taking in several areas: left anterior insula extending into posterior orbitofrontal cortex, right precuneus, left superior parietal lobule, and left superior occipital cortex. Although much prior research has emphasized psychopathy-related abnormalities in affective mechanisms mediating empathy, current results add to growing evidence of psychopathy-related abnormalities in a cognitive mechanism related to empathy. These findings highlight brain regions that are hypoactive in psychopathy when explicitly processing another's fear.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32898678
pii: S1053-8119(20)30828-4
doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117342
pmc: PMC9831240
mid: NIHMS1657558
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
117342Subventions
Organisme : NIMH NIH HHS
ID : R01 MH087525
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIMH NIH HHS
ID : R01 MH090169
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIMH NIH HHS
ID : R01 MH109329
Pays : United States
Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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