Functional and clinical neuroanatomy of morality

Neuroscience: Brain buzz

(2011) Douglas Fox   NATURE

Mode of Effective Connectivity within a Putative Neural Network Differentiates Moral Cognitions Related to Care and Justice Ethics

(2011) Ricardo Cáceda et al.   PLoS One

Born to Be Criminal? What to Make of Early Biological Risk Factors for Criminal Behavior

(2010) Phillip Sterzer   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex specifically processes general – but not personal – knowledge deception: Multiple brain networks for lying

(2010) Francesca Mameli et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

What neurophysiological recordings tell us about cognitive and behavioral functions of the human subthalamic nucleus

(2010) Sara Marceglia et al.   Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Harming Kin to Save Strangers: Further Evidence for Abnormally Utilitarian Moral Judgments after Ventromedial Prefrontal Damage

(2010) Bradley C. Thomas et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Mesolimbic dopamine reward system hypersensitivity in individuals with psychopathic traits

(2010) Joshua W Buckholtz et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Impairment of prosocial sentiments is associated with frontopolar and septal damage in frontotemporal dementia

(2010) Jorge Moll et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Moral Judgments Recruit Domain-General Valuation Mechanisms to Integrate Representations of Probability and Magnitude

(2010) Amitai Shenhav et al.   NEURON

Damage to Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Impairs Judgment of Harmful Intent

(2010) Liane Young et al.   NEURON

When Giving Is Good: Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Activation for Others' Intentions

(2010) Jeffrey C. Cooper et al.   NEURON

How should I decide? The neural correlates of everyday moral reasoning

(2010) Monika Sommer et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Electrified minds: Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS) as methods of non-invasive brain stimulation in neuropsychology—A review of current data and future implications

(2010) Kathrin S. Utz et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Abnormal moral reasoning in complete and partial callosotomy patients

(2010) Michael B. Miller et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Brain Switches Utilitarian Behavior: Does Gender Make the Difference?

(2010) Manuela Fumagalli et al.   PLoS One

Disruption of the right temporoparietal junction with transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces the role of beliefs in moral judgments

(2010) L. Young et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conflict-dependent dynamic of subthalamic nucleus oscillations during moral decisions

(2010) Manuela Fumagalli et al.   Social Neuroscience

Neuroticism and psychopathy predict brain activation during moral and nonmoral emotion regulation

(2009) C. L. Harenski et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

The functional brain architecture of human morality

(2009) Chadd M Funk et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Cortisol, callous-unemotional traits, and pathways to antisocial behavior

(2009) David J Hawes et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHIATRY

Genetics of human aggressive behaviour

(2009) Ian W. Craig et al.   HUMAN GENETICS

Modulation of beta oscillations in the subthalamic area during action observation in Parkinson's disease

(2009) S. Marceglia et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

DISAPPEARANCE OF SELF-AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR IN A BRAIN-INJURED PATIENT AFTER DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION OF THE HYPOTHALAMUS

(2009) Jens Kuhn et al.   NEUROSURGERY

Monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA) predicts behavioral aggression following provocation

(2009) R. McDermott et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Patterns of neural activity associated with honest and dishonest moral decisions

(2009) J. D. Greene et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Self-reported trauma, cortisol levels, and aggression in psychopathic and non-psychopathic prison inmates

(2008) Maaike Cima et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Bilateral frontal transcranial direct current stimulation: Failure to replicate classic findings in healthy subjects

(2008) Michael Koenigs et al.   CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

An Agent Harms a Victim: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study on Specific Moral Emotions

(2008) Gayannée Kédia et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Infection, Incest, and Iniquity: Investigating the Neural Correlates of Disgust and Morality

(2008) Jana Schaich Borg et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

An fMRI Investigation of Spontaneous Mental State Inference for Moral Judgment

(2008) Liane Young et al.   JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

The neural correlates of moral decision-making in psychopathy

(2008) A L Glenn et al.   MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY

Psychopathy as a disorder of the moral brain: Fronto-temporo-limbic grey matter reductions demonstrated by voxel-based morphometry

(2008) Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza et al.   NEUROIMAGE

You Shouldn't Have: Your Brain on Others' Crimes

(2008) Johannes Haushofer et al.   NEURON

Social attachment and aversion in human moral cognition

(2008) Jorge Moll et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

The Right and the Good: Distributive Justice and Neural Encoding of Equity and Efficiency

(2008) M. Hsu et al.   SCIENCE

Gender differences in neural mechanisms underlying moral sensitivity

(2008) Carla L. Harenski et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Low-Frequency Bilateral Hypothalamic Stimulation for Treatment of Drug-Resistant Aggressiveness in a Young Man with Mental Retardation

(2008) Virgilio Hernando et al.   STEREOTACTIC AND FUNCTIONAL NEUROSURGERY

The role of emotion in moral psychology

(2008) Bryce Huebner et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

An orbitofrontostriatopallidal pathway for morality: Evidence from postlesion antisocial and obsessive-compulsive disorder

(2008) Claude M. J. Braun et al.   Cognitive Neuropsychiatry