Application of Multivariate Pattern Analysis in Antisocial Personality Disorder

Due to a very close link between antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and criminal behavior, understanding the pathophysiology of ASPD is an international imperative. The objective of the present study is to develop a method of multivariate pattern analysis and investigate the altered functional connectivity patterns of ASPD by using rest-state functional magnetic resonance (MRI). Our results show that multivariate pattern analysis can provides accurate classification between ASPD and control subjects, and the ASPD is motivated from the uncoupling among the default mode network, the attention network, the visual recognition network, and the cerebellar network. Moreover, the method can succeed to extract altered information of ASPD and provide the first evidence for the altered brain's functional connections in ASPD.