Introduction
aggression, mental disorders, antisocial personality disorder, ASPD
Reactive aggression is often defined as response to perceived social threat, provocation, frustration, or rejection [One neuromodulator of the amygdala is oxytocin (OT) [While reactive aggression can be present in a number of mental disorders, it is central to the antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) [The present study examined the effect of a single dose of intranasal OT on amygdala reactivity to emotional facial expressions in men and women with ASPD in comparison to healthy men and women in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled within-subject design. We used blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) fMRI coupled with an emotional face classification task which has been established in the investigation of amygdala activation [