1,039
Views
14
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Amygdala reactivity to fearful faces correlates positively with impulsive aggression

, , , &
Pages 162-172 | Received 05 Jun 2017, Published online: 07 Jan 2018

References

  • Blair, R. J. (1995). A cognitive developmental approach to mortality: Investigating the psychopath. Cognition, 57(1), 1–29.
  • Blair, R. J. (2013). The neurobiology of psychopathic traits in youths. Nature Reviews. Neuroscience, 14(11), 786–799.
  • Blair, R. J., Leibenluft, E., & Pine, D. S. (2014). Conduct disorder and callous-unemotional traits in youth. The New England Journal of Medicine, 371(23), 2207–2216.
  • Blair, R. J., Leibenluft, E., & Pine, D. S. (2015). Conduct disorder and callous-unemotional traits in youth. The New England Journal of Medicine, 372(8), 784.
  • Blair, R. J., Veroude, K., & Buitelaar, J. K. (2016). Neuro-cognitive system dysfunction and symptom sets: A review of fMRI studies in youth with conduct problems. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.10.022
  • Buss, A. H., & Perry, M. (1992). The aggression questionnaire. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63(3), 452–459.
  • Carre, J. M., Fisher, P. M., Manuck, S. B., & Hariri, A. R. (2012). Interaction between trait anxiety and trait anger predict amygdala reactivity to angry facial expressions in men but not women. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 7(2), 213–221.
  • Carre, J. M., Hyde, L. W., Neumann, C. S., Viding, E., & Hariri, A. R. (2013). The neural signatures of distinct psychopathic traits. Social Neuroscience, 8(2), 122–135.
  • Carre, J. M., Murphy, K. R., & Hariri, A. R. (2013). What lies beneath the face of aggression? Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8(2), 224–229.
  • Carson, A. (2015). Prisoners in 2014. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Retrieved from http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5387
  • Coccaro, E. F., McCloskey, M. S., Fitzgerald, D. A., & Phan, K. L. (2007). Amygdala and orbitofrontal reactivity to social threat in individuals with impulsive aggression. Biological Psychiatry, 62(2), 168–178.
  • Contreras-Rodriguez, O., Pujol, J., Batalla, I., Harrison, B. J., Bosque, J., Ibern-Regas, I., … Cardoner, N. (2014). Disrupted neural processing of emotional faces in psychopathy. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9(4), 505–512.
  • Costa, P. T., & McCrae, R. R. (1992). Professional manual for revised NEO personality inventory. Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.
  • da Cunha-Bang, S., Fisher, P. M., Hjordt, L. V., Perfalk, E., Beliveau, V., Holst, K., & Knudsen, G. M. (2017). Men with high serotonin 1B receptor binding respond to provocations with heightened amygdala reactivity. Neuroimage, 166, 79–85.
  • da Cunha-Bang, S., Fisher, P. M., Hjordt, L. V., Perfalk, E., Persson Skibsted, A., Bock, C., … Knudsen, G. M. (2017). Violent offenders respond to provocations with high amygdala and striatal reactivity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(5), 802–810.
  • da Cunha-Bang, S., Hjordt, L. V., Dam, V. H., Stenbaek, D. S., Sestoft, D., & Knudsen, G. M. (2017). Anterior cingulate serotonin 1B receptor binding is associated with emotional response inhibition. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 92, 199–204.
  • da Cunha-Bang, S., Hjordt, L. V., Perfalk, E., Beliveau, V., Bock, C., Lehel, S., … Knudsen, G. M. (2016). Serotonin 1B Receptor Binding Is Associated With Trait Anger and Level of Psychopathy in Violent Offenders. Biological Psychiatry. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.02.030
  • da Cunha-Bang, S., Stenbaek, D. S., Holst, K., Licht, C. L., Jensen, P. S., Frokjaer, V. G., … Knudsen, G. M. (2013). Trait aggression and trait impulsivity are not related to frontal cortex 5-HT2A receptor binding in healthy individuals. Psychiatry Research, 212(2), 125–131.
  • Decety, J., Skelly, L., Yoder, K. J., & Kiehl, K. A. (2014). Neural processing of dynamic emotional facial expressions in psychopaths. Social Neuroscience, 9(1), 36–49.
  • Deen, M., Hansen, H. D., Hougaard, A., da Cunha-Bang, S., Norgaard, M., Svarer, C., … Knudsen, G. M. (2017). Low 5-HT1B receptor binding in the migraine brain: A PET study. Cephalalgia, 333102417698708. doi:10.1177/0333102417698708
  • Fisher, P. M., Meltzer, C. C., Ziolko, S. K., Price, J. C., Moses-Kolko, E. L., Berga, S. L., & Hariri, A. R. (2006). Capacity for 5-HT1A-mediated autoregulation predicts amygdala reactivity. Nature Neuroscience, 9(11), 1362–1363.
  • Fusar-Poli, P., Placentino, A., Carletti, F., Landi, P., Allen, P., Surguladze, S., … Politi, P. (2009). Functional atlas of emotional faces processing: A voxel-based meta-analysis of 105 functional magnetic resonance imaging studies. Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, 34(6), 418–432.
  • Gordon, H. L., Baird, A. A., & End, A. (2004). Functional differences among those high and low on a trait measure of psychopathy. Biological Psychiatry, 56(7), 516–521.
  • Hansen, H. S., Mortensen, E. L., & Schiøtz, H. K. (2004). Dokumentation for den danske udgave af NEO PI-R og NEO PI-R Kort Version. Copenhagen, Denmark: Dansk Psykologisk Forlag.
  • Harenski, C. L., Kim, S. H., & Hamann, S. (2009). Neuroticism and psychopathy predict brain activation during moral and nonmoral emotion regulation. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 9(1), 1–15.
  • Hariri, A. R., Mattay, V. S., Tessitore, A., Kolachana, B., Fera, F., Goldman, D., … Weinberger, D. R. (2002). Serotonin transporter genetic variation and the response of the human amygdala. Science, 297(5580), 400–403.
  • Holst, K., & Budtz-Jorgensen, E. (2013). Linear latent variable models: The lava package. Computation Statistical, 28, 1385–1452.
  • Hyde, L. W., Byrd, A. L., Votruba-Drzal, E., Hariri, A. R., & Manuck, S. B. (2014). Amygdala reactivity and negative emotionality: Divergent correlates of antisocial personality and psychopathy traits in a community sample. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 123(1), 214–224.
  • Hyde, L. W., Shaw, D. S., Murray, L., Gard, A., Hariri, A. R., & Forbes, E. E. (2016). Dissecting the role of amygdala reactivity in antisocial behavior in a sample of young, low-income, urban men. Clinical Psychological Science, 4(3), 527–544.
  • Jones, A. P., Laurens, K. R., Herba, C. M., Barker, G. J., & Viding, E. (2009). Amygdala hypoactivity to fearful faces in boys with conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 166(1), 95–102.
  • Kiehl, K. A., Smith, A. M., Hare, R. D., Mendrek, A., Forster, B. B., Brink, J., & Liddle, P. F. (2001). Limbic abnormalities in affective processing by criminal psychopaths as revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Biological Psychiatry, 50(9), 677–684.
  • Kong, X. Z., Zhen, Z., Li, X., Lu, H. H., Wang, R., Liu, L., … Liu, J. (2014). Individual differences in impulsivity predict head motion during magnetic resonance imaging. PLoS One, 9(8), e104989.
  • Lilienfeld, S., & Widows, M. R. (2005). Psychopathic Personality Inventory™–Revised (PPI™-R). Professional Manual, Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc., Florida.
  • Lozier, L. M., Cardinale, E. M., VanMeter, J. W., & Marsh, A. A. (2014). Mediation of the relationship between callous-unemotional traits and proactive aggression by amygdala response to fear among children with conduct problems. JAMA Psychiatry, 71(6), 627–636.
  • Maldjian, J. A., Laurienti, P. J., & Burdette, J. H. (2004). Precentral gyrus discrepancy in electronic versions of the Talairach atlas. Neuroimage, 21(1), 450–455.
  • Maldjian, J. A., Laurienti, P. J., Kraft, R. A., & Burdette, J. H. (2003). An automated method for neuroanatomic and cytoarchitectonic atlas-based interrogation of fMRI data sets. Neuroimage, 19(3), 1233–1239.
  • Marsh, A. A., & Blair, R. J. (2008). Deficits in facial affect recognition among antisocial populations: A meta-analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 32(3), 454–465.
  • Marsh, A. A., Finger, E. C., Mitchell, D. G., Reid, M. E., Sims, C., Kosson, D. S., … Blair, R. J. (2008). Reduced amygdala response to fearful expressions in children and adolescents with callous-unemotional traits and disruptive behavior disorders. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 165(6), 712–720.
  • McCloskey, M. S., Phan, K. L., Angstadt, M., Fettich, K. C., Keedy, S., & Coccaro, E. F. (2016). Amygdala hyperactivation to angry faces in intermittent explosive disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 79, 34–41.
  • Moeller, S. B., Novaco, R. W., Heinola-Nielsen, V., & Hougaard, H. (2015). Validation of the Novaco Anger Scale-Provocation Inventory (Danish) With Nonclinical, Clinical, and Offender Samples. Assessment. doi:10.1177/1073191115583713
  • Nikolova, Y. S., Bogdan, R., Brigidi, B. D., & Hariri, A. R. (2012). Ventral striatum reactivity to reward and recent life stress interact to predict positive affect. Biological Psychiatry, 72(2), 157–163.
  • Nikolova, Y. S., Knodt, A. R., Radtke, S. R., & Hariri, A. R. (2016). Divergent responses of the amygdala and ventral striatum predict stress-related problem drinking in young adults: Possible differential markers of affective and impulsive pathways of risk for alcohol use disorder. Molecular Psychiatry, 21(3), 348–356.
  • Patton, J. H., Stanford, M. S., & Barratt, E. S. (1995). Factor structure of the Barratt impulsiveness scale. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 51(6), 768–774.
  • Reynolds, C. R., & Kamphaus, R. W. (2011). Reynolds Intellectual Screening Test™ (RIST™) Professional Manual. Virum: Hogrefe Psykologisk Forlag A/S, 2011.
  • Rilling, J. K., Glenn, A. L., Jairam, M. R., Pagnoni, G., Goldsmith, D. R., Elfenbein, H. A., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2007). Neural correlates of social cooperation and non-cooperation as a function of psychopathy. Biological Psychiatry, 61(11), 1260–1271.
  • Rosell, D. R., & Siever, L. J. (2015). The neurobiology of aggression and violence. CNS Spectrums, 20(3), 254–279.
  • Viding, E., Sebastian, C. L., Dadds, M. R., Lockwood, P. L., Cecil, C. A., De Brito, S. A., & McCrory, E. J. (2012). Amygdala response to preattentive masked fear in children with conduct problems: The role of callous-unemotional traits. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 169(10), 1109–1116.
  • Whalen, P. J., Shin, L. M., McInerney, S. C., Fischer, H., Wright, C. I., & Rauch, S. L. (2001). A functional MRI study of human amygdala responses to facial expressions of fear versus anger. Emotion, 1(1), 70–83.
  • White, S. F., Marsh, A. A., Fowler, K. A., Schechter, J. C., Adalio, C., Pope, K., … Blair, R. J. (2012). Reduced amygdala response in youths with disruptive behavior disorders and psychopathic traits: Decreased emotional response versus increased top-down attention to nonemotional features. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 169(7), 750–758.
  • White, S. F., VanTieghem, M., Brislin, S. J., Sypher, I., Sinclair, S., Pine, D. S., … Blair, R. J. (2016). Neural correlates of the propensity for retaliatory behavior in youths with disruptive behavior disorders. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 173(3), 282–290.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.