Background Dysfunction in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) is believed to play a
pivotal role in the pathogenesis of mood and anxiety disorders. Leading neurocircuitry …

Linking psychopathy to a specific brain abnormality could have significant clinical, legal,
and scientific implications. Theories on the neurobiological basis of the disorder typically …

Objective: Psychopathy is a personality disorder associated with severely antisocial behavior
and a host of cognitive and affective deficits. The neuropathological basis of the disorder …

Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by callous lack of empathy, impulsive
antisocial behavior, and criminal recidivism. Here, we performed the largest diffusion tensor …

Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by callous antisocial behavior and
criminal recidivism. Here we examine whether psychopathy is associated with alterations in …

Substance use disorders (SUD) have been associated with dysfunction in reward processing,
habit formation, and cognitive‐behavioral control. Accordingly, neurocircuitry models of …

Psychopathy is a personality disorder associated with callous and impulsive behavior and
criminal recidivism. It has long been theorized that psychopaths have deficits in processing …

The ventromedial prefrontal cortex is known to play a crucial role in regulating human social
and emotional behaviour, yet the precise mechanisms by which it subserves this broad …

Depression is a prevalent psychiatric condition characterized by sad mood and anhedonia.
Neuroscientific research has consistently identified abnormalities in a network of brain …

The ventral striatum and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) are two central nodes of
the “reward circuit” of the brain. Human neuroimaging studies have demonstrated coincident …