Publications by authors named "Fatima Azevedo Ignacio"
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- Major advances in understanding psychopathy's neurobiology have occurred, but the full extent of brain structure abnormalities remains unclear.
- Different features of psychopathy, like emotional detachment and antisocial behavior, might link to distinct brain region abnormalities.
- A study comparing psychiatric patients with high psychopathy scores to healthy volunteers revealed grey matter reductions in key brain areas related to moral reasoning, with more severe psychopathy correlating with greater structural changes in these areas.
Recent investigations in cognitive neuroscience have shown that ordinary human behavior is guided by emotions that are uniquely human in their experiential and interpersonal aspects. These "moral emotions" contribute importantly to human social behavior and derive from the neurobehavioral reorganization of the basic plan of emotions that pervade mammalian life. Disgust is one prototypic emotion with multiple domains that include viscerosomatic reaction patterns and subjective experiences linked to (a) the sensory properties of a class of natural stimuli, (b) a set of aversive experiences and (c) a unique mode of experiencing morality.
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