TY - JOUR
T1 - A neurocognitive model of early onset persistent and desistant antisocial behavior in early adulthood
AU - van de Groep, Ilse H.
AU - Bos, Marieke G. N.
AU - Popma, Arne
AU - Crone, Eveline A.
AU - Jansen, Lucres M. C.
N1 - Funding Information: This work was supported by an Ammodo Science Award 2017 for Social Sciences Awarded to EC. MB was supported by the Research Council of Norway (RCN) (grant number 288083). Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2023 van de Groep, Bos, Popma, Crone and Jansen.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - It remains unclear which functional and neurobiological mechanisms are associated with persistent and desistant antisocial behavior in early adulthood. We reviewed the empirical literature and propose a neurocognitive social information processing model for early onset persistent and desistant antisocial behavior in early adulthood, focusing on how young adults evaluate, act upon, monitor, and learn about their goals and self traits. Based on the reviewed literature, we propose that persistent antisocial behavior is characterized by domain-general impairments in self-relevant and goal-related information processing, regulation, and learning, which is accompanied by altered activity in fronto-limbic brain areas. We propose that desistant antisocial development is associated with more effortful information processing, regulation and learning, that possibly balances self-relevant goals and specific situational characteristics. The proposed framework advances insights by considering individual differences such as psychopathic personality traits, and specific emotional characteristics (e.g., valence of social cues), to further illuminate functional and neural mechanisms underlying heterogenous developmental pathways. Finally, we address important open questions and offer suggestions for future research to improve scientific knowledge on general and context-specific expression and development of antisocial behavior in early adulthood.
AB - It remains unclear which functional and neurobiological mechanisms are associated with persistent and desistant antisocial behavior in early adulthood. We reviewed the empirical literature and propose a neurocognitive social information processing model for early onset persistent and desistant antisocial behavior in early adulthood, focusing on how young adults evaluate, act upon, monitor, and learn about their goals and self traits. Based on the reviewed literature, we propose that persistent antisocial behavior is characterized by domain-general impairments in self-relevant and goal-related information processing, regulation, and learning, which is accompanied by altered activity in fronto-limbic brain areas. We propose that desistant antisocial development is associated with more effortful information processing, regulation and learning, that possibly balances self-relevant goals and specific situational characteristics. The proposed framework advances insights by considering individual differences such as psychopathic personality traits, and specific emotional characteristics (e.g., valence of social cues), to further illuminate functional and neural mechanisms underlying heterogenous developmental pathways. Finally, we address important open questions and offer suggestions for future research to improve scientific knowledge on general and context-specific expression and development of antisocial behavior in early adulthood.
KW - antisocial behavior
KW - development
KW - early adulthood
KW - fMRI
KW - goal-directed behavior
KW - self
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1100277
DO - https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1100277
M3 - Review article
C2 - 37533586
SN - 1662-5161
VL - 17
JO - Frontiers in human neuroscience
JF - Frontiers in human neuroscience
M1 - 1100277
ER -