患有平滑追踪眼球运动障碍的精神病患者和罪犯的诱发电位增强-减弱现象。

Evoked potential augmenting-reducing in psychopaths and criminals with impaired smooth-pursuit eye movements.

作者信息

Raine A, Venables P H

机构信息

Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90089-1061.

出版信息

Psychiatry Res. 1990 Jan;31(1):85-98. doi: 10.1016/0165-1781(90)90111-h.

DOI:10.1016/0165-1781(90)90111-h

PMID:2315424

Abstract

Previous studies that have assessed a stimulation-seeking theory of psychopathy are open to the criticism that psychopaths may lie on self-report questionnaires. The present study uses event-related potential (ERP) augmenting-reducing as a psychophysiological analog of stimulation-seeking in psychopaths to test this theory. It is also hypothesized that "schizoid" criminals, as defined by poor eye tracking, would show nonaugmenting/reducing, a profile characteristic of schizophrenia. Schizoid criminals were found to be characterized by nonaugmenting/reducing, but psychopaths were not found to be characterized by augmenting. It is concluded that stimulation-seeking is a viable theory of criminality but not of psychopathy, and that the etiological basis to schizoid criminality may differ substantially from criminality, per se.

摘要

以往评估精神病态刺激寻求理论的研究容易受到批评，即精神病态者可能在自我报告问卷上说谎。本研究使用事件相关电位（ERP）增强-减弱作为精神病态者刺激寻求的心理生理类似物来检验这一理论。研究还假设，根据不良眼动追踪定义的“分裂样”罪犯会表现出非增强/减弱，这是精神分裂症的一种特征表现。研究发现，分裂样罪犯的特征是非增强/减弱，但未发现精神病态者的特征是增强。研究得出结论，刺激寻求是一种关于犯罪行为的可行理论，但不适用于精神病态，并且分裂样犯罪行为的病因基础可能与犯罪行为本身有很大差异。