Hypothèses neurobiologiques concernant les liens entre psychopathie et maltraitance infantile

Now, fear conditioning is the model on which the abusive education system is based. If this cannot develop, the child lives in the present, reacting to the unconditioned stimulus (US) like blows (with autonomic reactions), but the emotional association between this and the conditioned stimulus (CS) - like hostile glances or shouting - could not be registered in the orbital frontal cortex and the conditioned stimulus would not provoke autonomic responses which enable the anticipation of a danger connected with an interdict. Thus, psychopathic tendencies can develop.