UCLA Brain Mapping Center

Publications

Localisation of increased prefrontal white matter in pathological liars.

Yang Y; Raine A; Narr KL; Lencz T; LaCasse L; Colletti P; Toga AW;
The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science. 2007-Feb; 190(174-5)
 
We examined white matter volumes in four prefrontal subregions using structural magnetic resonance imaging in 10 pathological liars, 14 antisocial controls, and 20 normal controls. Liars showed a relatively widespread increase in white matter (23-36%) in orbitofrontal, middle and inferior, but not superior, frontal gyri compared with antisocial and normal controls. This white matter increase may predispose some individuals to pathological lying.
 
PMID: 17267937    doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.106.025056
 

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