国外精神病态罪犯的脑机制研究述评

精神病态是一种个体表现在人际关系、情感、生活方式和反社会特质等方面的人格障碍, 与非精神病态者相比, 精神病态者更容易违反社会规则和法律, 表现出更加残忍和极端的侵犯模式, 犯罪的起始年龄更早, 犯罪活动更为广泛和多样, 累犯率非常高。国外关于精神病态罪犯脑机制的ERP研究表明精神病态罪犯注意朝向、语义和情感加工以及对错误加工的后期阶段存在缺陷。MRI和fMRI的研究表明, 大脑结构异常以及额叶-边缘系统回路活动异常与精神病态行为有关。

Brain Mechanisms of Criminal Psychopaths

Psychopathy is a personality disorder with a cluster of interpersonal,affective,behavioral and antisocial traits.Compared with non-psychopath,psychopaths are more likely to violate social rules and laws.They display crueler and extreme aggression models,with earlier onset age of crime,more extensive and diverse criminal activities,and higher recidivism rates.Recent event-related potential(ERP) researches of criminal psychopaths indicated deficits in attentional orientation,semantic and affective processing,...