Antisocial personality traits linked to blunted brain responses to angry faces

Antisocial personality traits linked to blunted brain responses to angry faces

A new neuroimaging study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research has found that adults who report higher levels of antisocial personality traits show reduced brain responses to threatening social cues. Specifically, the study found that individuals with more symptoms of antisocial personality disorder, or ASPD, showed lower activation in brain regions involved in processing emotional and social information when confronted with angry fac…