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Flor A Espinoza¹, Victor M Vergara¹, Daisy Reyes^1,2

¹The Mind Research Network, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87106.

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Keywords:

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Neuroscience
Psychiatry
Psychology

Background:

Psychopathy is a personality disorder linked to crime.
Previous research focused on specific brain regions.
Understanding neural correlates aids early assessment and treatment.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whole-brain functional connectivity in psychopathy.
To associate functional network connectivity (FNC) with psychopathic traits.
To explore neural underpinnings of psychopathy's affective/interpersonal symptoms.

Main Methods:

Used resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on 985 incarcerated males.
Applied group-independent component and regression analyses.
Examined functional connectivity between resting-state networks (RSNs) and psychopathy scores.

Main Results:

Factor 1 (interpersonal/affective) scores correlated with altered FNC in seven brain domains.
Paralimbic regions (insula, cingulate cortex, amygdala, OFC, STG) showed significant FNC associations with Factor 1.
No significant FNC associations were found for Factor 2 or total psychopathy scores.

Conclusions:

Aberrant functional connectivity in multiple brain networks, including paralimbic areas, underlies psychopathy's affective and interpersonal symptoms.
Whole-brain analysis reveals network-level alterations in psychopathy.
Findings may inform early detection and therapeutic strategies for psychopathy.