Psychopathic tendencies and mesolimbic recruitment by cues for instrumental and passively obtained rewards

• Published in: Biological psychology Vol. 89; no. 2; pp. 408 - 415
• Main Authors: Bjork, James M., Chen, Gang, Hommer, Daniel W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.02.2012; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Antisocial Personality Disorder - physiopathology; Antisocial Personality Disorder - psychology; Behavioral psychophysiology; Biological and medical sciences; Brain - physiopathology; Brain Mapping; Cues; Female; fMRI; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Incentive motivation; Instrumental behavior; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Medical sciences; Motivation; Personality; Personality disorders; Personality Inventory; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Psychopathy; Reaction Time - physiology; Recruitment, Neurophysiological - physiology; Reward; fMRI; Reward; Instrumental behavior; Psychopathy; Incentive motivation; Incentive; Central nervous system; Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging; Personality disorder; Encephalon; Recruitment; Behavioral disorder; Motivation; Psychopathia; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Social behavior disorder; Functional imaging; Psychopathic personality

► Previous research indicates that impulsive persons have greater brain activation by rewards. ► We scanned controls with an fMRI task that probes mesolimbic activation by instrumental and passive rewards. ► Psychopathic tendencies correlated negatively with reaction time to targets to win rewards....