Authors
Adrian Raine, Todd Lencz, Kristen Taylor, Joseph B Hellige, Susan Bihrle, Lori Lacasse, Mimi Lee, Sharon Ishikawa, Patrick Colletti
Publication date
2003/11/1
Journal
Archives of general psychiatry
Volume
60
Issue
11
Pages
1134-1142
Publisher
American Medical Association
Description
Context
Psychopathic antisocial individuals have previously been characterized by abnormal interhemispheric processing and callosal functioning, but there have been no studies on the structural characteristics of the corpus callosum in this group.
Objectives
To assess whether (1) psychopathic individuals with antisocial personality disorder show structural and functional impairments in the corpus callosum,(2) group differences are mirrored by correlations between dimensional measures of callosal structure and psychopathy, (3) callosal abnormalities are associated with affective deficits, and (4) callosal abnormalities are independent of psychosocial deficits.
Design
Case-control study.
Setting
Community sample.
Participants
Fifteen men with antisocial personality disorder and high psychopathy scores and 25 matched controls, all from a larger sample of 83 community volunteers.
Main Outcome Measures
Structural …
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