title: Psychopathy, attention and emotion.
abstract: Psychopathy is a developmental disorder marked by emotional hypo-responsiveness and an increased risk for antisocial behavior. Influential attention-based accounts of psychopathy have long been made; however, these accounts have made relatively little reference to general models of attention in healthy individuals. This review has three aims: (1) to summarize current cognitive neuroscience data on differing attentional systems; (2) to examine the functional integrity of these attentional systems in individuals with psychopathy; and (3) to consider the implications of these data for attention and emotion dysfunction accounts of psychopathy.
authors.affiliation: Mood and Anxiety Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. blairj@intra.nimh.nih.gov
authors.forename: R J R
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Blair
authors.forename: D G V
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Mitchell
mesh_terms: D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000503:physiopathology; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests