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Responsiveness to distress cues in the child with psychopathic tendencies
- R. J. Blair
- Psychology
- 1 July 1999
This study investigates the psychophysiological responsiveness of children with emotional and behavioral difficulties, divided according to their Psychopathy Screening Device (PSD) scores (Frick and… Expand
Reduced sensitivity to others’ fearful expressions in psychopathic individuals
- R. J. Blair, D. Mitchell, +5 authors D. Perrett
- Psychology
- 1 October 2004
This study investigates the ability of psychopathic individuals to process facial emotional expressions. Psychopathic and comparison individuals, as defined by the Hare Psychopathy Checklist Revised… Expand
Human mast cells stimulate vascular tube formation. Tryptase is a novel, potent angiogenic factor.
- R. J. Blair, H. Meng, +4 authors B. Gruber
- Biology, Medicine
- The Journal of clinical investigation
- 1 June 1997
The presence of mast cells near capillary sprouting sites suggests an association between mast cells and angiogenesis. However, the role of mast cells in blood vessel development remains to be… Expand
Emotional Automaticity Is a Matter of Timing
- Qian Luo, T. Holroyd, Catherine Majestic, Xi Cheng, J. Schechter, R. J. Blair
- Psychology, Medicine
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- 28 April 2010
There has been a long controversy concerning whether the amygdala's response to emotional stimuli is automatic or dependent on attentional load. Using magnoencephalography and an advanced beamformer… Expand
Interaction of Prenatal Exposure to Cigarettes and MAOA Genotype in Pathways to Youth Antisocial Behavior
- L. Wakschlag, E. Kistner, +11 authors E. Cook
- Psychology, Medicine
- Molecular Psychiatry
- 20 February 2009
Genetic susceptibility to antisocial behavior may increase fetal sensitivity to prenatal exposure to cigarette smoke. Testing putative gene × exposure mechanisms requires precise measurement of… Expand
Autism spectrum disorder and psychopathy: shared cognitive underpinnings or double hit?
- J. Rogers, E. Viding, R. J. Blair, U. Frith, F. Happé
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological medicine
- 1 December 2006
BACKGROUND
We measured psychopathic traits in boys with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) selected for difficult and aggressive behaviour. We asked (i) whether psychopathic tendencies can be measured in… Expand
Psychophysiological responsiveness to the distress ofothers in children with autism
- R. J. Blair
- Psychology
- 1 March 1999
Abstract This study investigates the psychophysiological responsiveness of children with autismand comparison groups to distress cues, threatening and neutral stimuli. 20 children with autism,20… Expand
Neural Correlates of the Propensity for Retaliatory Behavior in Youths With Disruptive Behavior Disorders.
- S. White, M. Vantieghem, +5 authors R. J. Blair
- Psychology, Medicine
- The American journal of psychiatry
- 1 March 2016
OBJECTIVE
Youths with disruptive behavior disorders (DBD) (conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder) have an elevated risk for maladaptive reactive aggression. Theory suggests that this is… Expand
The Neurodevelopmental Basis of Early Childhood Disruptive Behavior: Irritable and Callous Phenotypes as Exemplars.
- L. Wakschlag, S. Perlman, R. J. Blair, E. Leibenluft, Margaret J. Briggs-Gowan, D. Pine
- Psychology, Medicine
- The American journal of psychiatry
- 17 November 2017
The arrival of the Journal's 175th anniversary occurs at a time of recent advances in research, providing an ideal opportunity to present a neurodevelopmental roadmap for understanding, preventing,… Expand
Adapting to Dynamic Stimulus-Response Values: Differential Contributions of Inferior Frontal, Dorsomedial, and Dorsolateral Regions of Prefrontal Cortex to Decision Making
- D. Mitchell, Qian Luo, +5 authors R. J. Blair
- Psychology, Medicine
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- 2 September 2009
Dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC), dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), and inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) have all been implicated in resolving decision conflict whether this conflict is… Expand