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Amygdala reactivity predicts adolescent antisocial behavior but not callous-unemotional traits.

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Dotterer, HL; Hyde, LW; Swartz, JR; Hariri, AR; Williamson, DE
Published in: Developmental cognitive neuroscience
April 2017

Recent neuroimaging studies have suggested divergent relationships between antisocial behavior (AB) and callous-unemotional (CU) traits and amygdala reactivity to fearful and angry facial expressions in adolescents. However, little work has examined if these findings extend to dimensional measures of behavior in ethnically diverse, non-clinical samples, or if participant sex, ethnicity, pubertal stage, and age moderate associations. We examined links between amygdala reactivity and dimensions of AB and CU traits in 220 Hispanic and non-Hispanic Caucasian adolescents (age 11-15; 49.5% female; 38.2% Hispanic), half of whom had a family history for depression and thus were at relatively elevated risk for late starting, emotionally dysregulated AB. We found that AB was significantly related to increased right amygdala reactivity to angry facial expressions independent of sex, ethnicity, pubertal stage, age, and familial risk status for depression. CU traits were not related to fear- or anger-related amygdala reactivity. The present study further demonstrates that AB is related to increased amygdala reactivity to interpersonal threat cues in adolescents, and that this relationship generalizes across sex, ethnicity, pubertal stage, age, and familial risk status for depression.

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Developmental cognitive neuroscience

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1878-9307

ISSN

1878-9293

Publication Date

April 2017

Volume

24

Start / End Page

84 / 92

Related Subject Headings

  • Male
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Emotions
  • Child
  • Antisocial Personality Disorder
  • Amygdala
  • Adolescent
  • 5203 Clinical and health psychology
 

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Dotterer, H. L., Hyde, L. W., Swartz, J. R., Hariri, A. R., & Williamson, D. E. (2017). Amygdala reactivity predicts adolescent antisocial behavior but not callous-unemotional traits. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 84–92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2017.02.008
Dotterer, Hailey L., Luke W. Hyde, Johnna R. Swartz, Ahmad R. Hariri, and Douglas E. Williamson. “Amygdala reactivity predicts adolescent antisocial behavior but not callous-unemotional traits.Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 24 (April 2017): 84–92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2017.02.008.
Dotterer HL, Hyde LW, Swartz JR, Hariri AR, Williamson DE. Amygdala reactivity predicts adolescent antisocial behavior but not callous-unemotional traits. Developmental cognitive neuroscience. 2017 Apr;24:84–92.
Dotterer, Hailey L., et al. “Amygdala reactivity predicts adolescent antisocial behavior but not callous-unemotional traits.Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 24, Apr. 2017, pp. 84–92. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2017.02.008.
Dotterer HL, Hyde LW, Swartz JR, Hariri AR, Williamson DE. Amygdala reactivity predicts adolescent antisocial behavior but not callous-unemotional traits. Developmental cognitive neuroscience. 2017 Apr;24:84–92.

Published In

Developmental cognitive neuroscience

DOI

EISSN

1878-9307

ISSN

1878-9293

Publication Date

April 2017

Volume

24

Start / End Page

84 / 92

Related Subject Headings

  • Male
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Emotions
  • Child
  • Antisocial Personality Disorder
  • Amygdala
  • Adolescent
  • 5203 Clinical and health psychology