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T1 Contribution of Brain Cortical Features to the Psychological Risk Profile of Juvenile Offenders
A1 Padrón González, Iván
A1 Góngora, Daylin
A1 Moreno, Iván
A1 Rodrigo López, María José
A1 Martín Rodríguez, Ana María
A2 Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación
K1 Cortical thickness
K1 Cortical surface area
K1 Juvenile offenders
K1 Childhood trauma
K1 Psychopathy
AB Objectives: This study contributes to the neuroscience of offending behavior by addressing two aims: a) to examine differencesin the cortical features in a group of male serious juvenile offenders (21 OG), versus controls (28 CG), both ranging from18 to 21 years old; and b) to determine to what extent the differential cortical features and the risk psychological profilediscriminate between the two groups. Method: Besides cortical measures, demographics, executive functioning, childhoodtrauma, psychopathic traits, psychopathological symptoms, and antisocial and delinquent behavior were assessed. Results:Whole-brain analysis of the cortical mantle identified increased cortical thickness in the cluster comprising the right middletemporal gyrus and a smaller surface area in the lateral orbitofrontal cortex for the OG compared to the CG. The discriminantfunction correctly classified 100% of cases of the CG and 94.7% of the OG. Right temporal cluster, childhood trauma, callousnessand symptoms of interpersonal sensitivity, psychoticism, depression, phobic anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive behaviorcontributed to the OG. In turn, the lateral orbitofrontal cluster, psychopathic traits of grandiosity, unemotionality, and thrillseeking, and working memory contributed to the CG. Conclusions: The increased right middle temporal gyrus of the OG couldbe indicative of impaired brain development in social cognition processes since it appeared in combination with the higher riskprofile. The reduced orbitofrontal cortex could be indicative of immature brain development in emotional control processessince it appeared in combination with the normative psychological prof
YR 2022
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RD 12-jul-2024