Deficient fear conditioning in psychopathy as a function of interpersonal and affective disturbances

Deficient fear conditioning in psychopathy as a function of interpersonal and affective disturbances

The diminished fear reactivity is one of the most valid physiological findings in psychopathy research. In a fear conditioning paradigm, with faces as conditioned stimulus (CS) and electric shock as unconditioned stimulus (US), we investigated a sample of 14 high psychopathic violent offenders. Even...

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Main Authors: Ralf eVeit, Lilian eKonicar, Jens G. Klinzing, Beatrix eBarth, Özge eYilmaz, Niels eBirbaumer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
Electrophysiology
Fear conditioning
psychopathy
Skin conductance
emotional-cognitive interaction
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00706/full

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