Konicar, Lilian and Veit, Ralf and Eisenbarth, Hedwig and Barth, Beatrix and Tonin, Paolo and Strehl, Ute and Birbaumer, Niels (2015) Brain self-regulation in criminal psychopaths. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 5: 9426. ISSN 2045-2322,
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Psychopathic individuals are characterized by impaired affective processing, impulsivity, sensation-seeking, poor planning skills and heightened aggressiveness with poor self-regulation. Based on brain self-regulation studies using neurofeedback of Slow Cortical Potentials (SCPs) in disorders associated with a dysregulation of cortical activity thresholds and evidence of deficient cortical functioning in psychopathy, a neurobiological approach seems to be promising in the treatment of psychopathy. The results of our intensive brain regulation intervention demonstrate, that psychopathic offenders are able to gain control of their brain excitability over fronto-central brain areas. After SCP self-regulation training, we observed reduced aggression, impulsivity and behavioral approach tendencies, as well as improvements in behavioral-inhibition and increased cortical sensitivity for error-processing. This study demonstrates improvements on the neurophysiological, behavioral and subjective level in severe psychopathic offenders after SCP-neurofeedback training and could constitute a novel neurobiologically-based treatment for a seemingly change-resistant group of criminal psychopaths.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | SLOW CORTICAL POTENTIALS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX; ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER; ERROR-RELATED NEGATIVITY; VIOLENT OFFENDERS; PASSIVE-AVOIDANCE; RETEST RELIABILITY; REWARD DOMINANCE; CHILDREN; EEG; |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Abteilung für Forensische Psychiatrie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Jul 2019 12:53 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Jul 2019 12:53 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/5769 |
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