Therefore the reviewed literature supports a dichotomy:
increased reactive aggression associated with a hyper - reactive amygdala and CU traits associated with a hypo - reactive amygdala.
Not exact matches
Second, two populations of antisocial individuals can be identified: those that show an
increased risk for only
reactive aggression and those that show an
increased risk for both
reactive and instrumental
aggression.
We expected that
reactive aggression would be particularly associated with anxiety and attention problems, and proactive
aggression with
increased levels of conduct disorder symptoms (Vitaro et al. 2002).
For example, Ostrov et al. -LRB-[2013]-RRB- recently reported that the prospective associations of relational
aggression in early childhood went in opposite directions depending on whether the
aggression was
reactive or proactive; proactive relational
aggression was associated with decreases in peer rejection, whereas
reactive relational
aggression was associated with
increases in peer rejection over time.
The reactivity of the amygala to negatively valenced stimuli (including angry or fearful faces) is
increased in psychiatric syndromes with elevated risk for
reactive aggression (Blair, 2012), including intermittent explosive disorder (IED)(Coccaro et al., 2007), borderline personality disorder (Herpertz et al., 2001; Minzenberg et al., 2007; Silbersweig et al., 2007) and children with conduct problems (Sterzer et al., 2005).