psychopathy
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Erasmus MC, Universitair Medisch Centrum Rotterdam
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 99 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Psychopathy (pcl-r score >=26) Antisocial personality disorder according to the DSM-IV criteria
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Specific exclusion criteria for patients: psychotic patients. Exclusion criteria for both patients and controls: colour blindness, deafness or hard of hearing, neurological, cardiovascular, and respiratory diseases. Subjects will also be excluded when they cannot understand the Dutch language sufficiently to understand the purposes and implications of the experiment.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Emotional functioning of psychopaths and ASPD-patients with a low PCL-R score will be studied by means of psychophysiological (Heart rate, blood pressure, skin conductance, breathing rate and eyeblink and post-auricular EMG), HPA axis (Salivary cortisol levels) and psychodiagnostic and risk-assessment instruments to investigate whether there are subgroups of antisocial offenders, who can be differentiated on the basis of affective response patterns. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Type and dose of medication Duration of treatment with medication Criminological anamnesis Type and number of convictions Age of first conviction | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed