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Antisocial personality and stress-induced brain activation in cocaine-dependent patients.

Abstract
We explore the neural correlates underlying distress processing in antisocial personality in cocaine-dependent individuals. Twenty-seven abstinent cocaine-dependent individuals took part in script-guided stress imagery in a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Regional brain activation during stress imagery was compared with a baseline period, for male and female participants separately. Their California Psychological Inventory socialization scores were then correlated in region of interest analysis with corticolimbic brain regions that showed significant activation during stress. The effect size of activity change in the medial prefrontal cortex is associated with lower socialization score (i.e. greater sociopathy) and with the change in heart rate, but only among female participants. These results highlight important sex differences in the association between antisocial personality and distress processing in cocaine-dependent individuals.
AuthorsChiang-Shan R Li, Thomas R Kosten, Rajita Sinha
JournalNeuroreport (Neuroreport) Vol. 17 Issue 3 Pg. 243-7 (Feb 27 2006) ISSN: 0959-4965 [Print] England
PMID16462591 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural)
Chemical References
  • Oxygen
Topics
  • Adult
  • Antisocial Personality Disorder (physiopathology)
  • Brain Mapping
  • Cocaine-Related Disorders (physiopathology)
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted (methods)
  • Imagination
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (methods)
  • Male
  • Oxygen (blood)
  • Prefrontal Cortex (blood supply, physiopathology)
  • Statistics as Topic
  • Stress, Physiological (physiopathology)

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