Individuals with APD frequently fail to show any signs of fear learning in aversive conditioning procedures and functional brain imaging studies have shown that this failure to learn is accompanied by:

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In individuals with Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD), there is often a noted inactivity or reduced activity in the limbic-prefrontal circuit during aversive conditioning procedures. This circuit is crucial for emotional processing and learning from negative experiences, and its underactivity is associated with the failure to learn from fear or punishment, a characteristic observed in APD.

Individuals with APD Frequently Fail to Show Any Signs of Fear