Decoding Pedophilia: Increased Anterior Insula Response to Infant Animal Pictures
| Autor: | Jorge Ponseti, Daniel Bruhn, Julia Nolting, Hannah Gerwinn, Alexander Pohl, Aglaja Stirn, Oliver Granert, Helmut Laufs, Günther Deuschl, Stephan Wolff, Olav Jansen, Hartwig Siebner, Peer Briken, Sebastian Mohnke, Till Amelung, Jonas Kneer, Boris Schiffer, Henrik Walter, Tillmann H. C. Kruger |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Brain activity and meditation parental investment Child Sex Abuse Poison control Insula Audiology Insular cortex insula 050105 experimental psychology lcsh:RC321-571 03 medical and health sciences Behavioral Neuroscience nurturing behavior 0302 clinical medicine pedophilia medicine ddc:6 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ddc:610 lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry baby schema Pedophilia Biological Psychiatry Original Research medicine.diagnostic_test 05 social sciences fMRI child sex abuse article Baby Schema Parental investment Psychiatry and Mental health Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology medicine.anatomical_structure Neurology Nurturing Behavior Infant animal Psychology Functional magnetic resonance imaging 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Motor cortex Neuroscience |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Ponseti, J, Bruhn, D, Nolting, J, Gerwinn, H, Pohl, A, Stirn, A, Granert, O, Laufs, H, Deuschl, G, Wolff, S, Jansen, O, Siebner, H, Briken, P, Mohnke, S, Amelung, T, Kneer, J, Schiffer, B, Walter, H & Kruger, T H C 2018, ' Decoding pedophilia : Increased anterior insula response to infant animal pictures ', Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 11, 645 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00645 Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Vol 11 (2018) |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00645 |
| Popis: | Previous research found increased brain responses of men with sexual interest in children (i.e., pedophiles) not only to pictures of naked children but also to pictures of child faces. This opens the possibly that pedophilia is linked (in addition to or instead of an aberrant sexual system) to an over-active nurturing system. To test this hypothesis we exposed pedophiles and healthy controls to pictures of infant and adult animals during functional magnetic resonance imaging of the brain. By using pictures of infant animals (instead of human infants), we aimed to elicit nurturing processing without triggering sexual processing. We hypothesized that elevated brain responses to nurturing stimuli will be found – in addition to other brain areas – in the anterior insula of pedophiles because this area was repeatedly found to be activated when adults see pictures of babies. Behavioral ratings confirmed that pictures of infant or adult animals were not perceived as sexually arousing neither by the pedophilic participants nor by the heathy controls. Statistical analysis was applied to the whole brain as well as to the anterior insula as region of interest. Only in pedophiles did infants relative to adult animals increase brain activity in the anterior insula, supplementary motor cortex, and dorsolateral prefrontal areas. Within-group analysis revealed an increased brain response to infant animals in the left anterior insular cortex of the pedophilic participants. Currently, pedophilia is considered the consequence of disturbed sexual or executive brain processing, but details are far from known. The present findings raise the question whether there is also an over-responsive nurturing system in pedophilia. |
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