Lower Amygdala Volume in Men is Associated with Childhood Aggression, Early Psychopathic Traits, and Future Violence

Pardini, Dustin A.; Raine, Adrian; Erickson, Kirk I.; Loeber, Rolf

doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.04.003

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“…Some studies have shown that neurobiological markers can predict, over and above well-replicated psychosocial risk factors, which individuals will demonstrate antisocial or psychopathic traits 101,102 . The two recent imaging studies described above 18,79 , together with multiple studies identifying psychophysiological and hormone predictors of future offending, provide some support for the conclusions made in a Royal Society report that neuroscience may have future value in predicting reoffending 103 .…”

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“…One study showed that reduced functioning in the anterior cingulate during a go/no-go task in prisoners doubled the likelihood of re-arrest three years later 79 . A second study of high-risk community males showed that reduced amygdala volume at age 26 was associated with violent offending three years later 18 . As has been observed in other biological longitudinal research, both studies showed predictive utility of brain measures over and above past history of antisocial behavior and other confounds.…”

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“…CSP is thought to be an early marker for disrupted development in the limbic region of the brain 17 , which in turn is associated with offending 18 .…”

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Criminal behaviour and violence are increasingly viewed as worldwide public health problems. A growing body of knowledge shows that criminal behaviour has a neurobiological basis, and this has intensified judicial interest in the potential application of neuroscience to criminal law. It also gives rise to important questions. What are the implications of such application for predicting future criminal behaviour and protecting society? Can it be used to prevent violence? And what are the implications for the way offenders are punished?

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“…On one side, some research has argued that the neural deficits and behaviors of juvenile psychopaths are stable, long-term factors that lead to adult psychopathic behavior and offending (Loney et al, 2007;Pardini et al, 2014;Anderson & Kiehl, 2014). Since juvenile psychopaths share many of the same neural deficits and personality characteristics documented in adult psychopaths, as suggested by this review, many have reported that the deficits and behaviors of juvenile psychopathy should be considered a developmental antecedent to adult psychopathy (Barry et al, 2000;Lynam et al, 2005;Lynam et al, 2007;Frick, 2009).…”

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Brain imaging research on psychopathy: Implications for punishment, prediction, and treatment in youth and adults

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While there has been an exponential increase in brain imaging research on psychopathy in the past two decades, knowledge on the brain basis to child and adolescent psychopathic-like behavior is relatively new. This adult and child research has potential future implications for the development of new interventions, prediction of future offending, and punishment. This review examines both adult and child literatures on the neural basis of psychopathy, together with implications for the criminal justice system. The adult imaging literature provides growing evidence for amygdala structural and functional impairments in psychopaths, and more variable evidence for prefrontal deficits. The emerging child and adolescent imaging literature with notable exceptions broadly parallels these adult findings and may help explain the development of fearlessness, disinhibition, and lack of empathy. This knowledge places policy makers at a crossroads. Should new biological interventions be developed to remediate these brain abnormalities? Would imaging be used in the future to predict offending? Could imaging findings help excuse psychopathic behavior or alternatively argue for longer sentences for public protection? This review attempts to address these issues at the child and adult levels and provides directions for future research that include the incorporation of biological measures into treatment programs. AbstractWhile there has been an exponential increase in brain imaging research on psychopathy in the past two decades, knowledge on the brain basis to child and adolescent psychopathic-like behavior is relatively new. This adult and child research has potential future implications for the development of new interventions, prediction of future offending, and punishment. This review examines both adult and child literatures on the neural basis of psychopathy, together with implications for the criminal justice system. The adult imaging literature provides growing evidence for amygdala structural and functional impairments in psychopaths, and more variable evidence for prefrontal deficits. The emerging child and adolescent imaging literature with notable exceptions broadly parallels these adult findings and may help explain the development of fearlessness, disinhibition, and lack of empathy. This knowledge places policy makers at a crossroads. Should new biological interventions be developed to remediate these brain abnormalities? Would imaging be used in the future to predict offending? Could imaging findings help excuse psychopathic behavior or alternatively argue for longer sentences for public protection? This review attempts to address these issues at the child and adult levels and provides directions for future research that include the incorporation of biological measures into treatment programs.4

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“…It was found that in adolescence and young adulthood, lower amygdala volume was also associated with proactive aggression. More importantly, "this is the irst study to demonstrate that adult men with lower amygdala volume were at increased risk for exhibiting future aggression, violence, and psychopathic traits, even after controlling for earlier levels of these features and several potential confounds" [83].…”

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Development of Psychopathy from Childhood

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Serious conduct problems are a serious mental health and public policy concern. Such conduct problems are highly related to criminal behavior and are associated with a host of other social, emotional, and academic problems. In addition, serious conduct problems in childhood predict later impairments in the domains of mental health, legal, educational, social, occupational, and physical health. In the past two decades, a signiicant body of research has emerged reining how the key features associated with psychopathy may be expressed in children and adolescents. These researches have focused largely on the presence of callous-unemotional traits, which correspond closely to the afective dimension of psychopathy-core to the construct in adult samples. Several reviews have focused on important theoretical questions related to how best to identify psychopathy in children and adolescents but do not directly address their importance for understanding, classifying, and treating youths with severe conduct problems. So, in the forefront of these studies, I aimed to review the development of psychopathy from childhood. In this chapter, topics related to psychopathy, such as diagnosis and nosology, epidemiologic studies, etiologic factors, assessment, diagnostic interviews, comorbid disorders and longitudinal outcome, treatment modalities, and treatment outcome in samples of children and adolescents, were included.

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Lower Amygdala Volume in Men is Associated with Childhood Aggression, Early Psychopathic Traits, and Future Violence

Cited by 216 publications

References 49 publications

Neurocriminology: implications for the punishment, prediction and prevention of criminal behaviour

Neurocriminology: implications for the punishment, prediction and prevention of criminal behaviour

Brain imaging research on psychopathy: Implications for punishment, prediction, and treatment in youth and adults

Development of Psychopathy from Childhood

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