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Dr De Brito’s research uses behavioural, neurocognitive and structural/functional magnetic resonance brain imaging techniques to better understand the characteristics of different subgroups of children and adults displaying severe antisocial behaviour and psychopathic traits. A second strand of his research interests is to better understand patterns of resilience and vulnerability in children and adults who have experienced early adversity. The goals are to clarify why some individuals who have experienced early adversity show resilience while others do not, whether individuals who have experienced early adversity process emotions differently, and whether structural and functional neural markers of resilience can be identified.

Dr De Brito considers PhD applications on a rolling basis. Students interested in working on topics related to his research and with a strong academic track record should email him in the first instance.

20092024

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  • Review article

    An ‘embedded brain’ approach to understanding antisocial behaviour

    Viding, E., McCrory, E., Baskin-Sommers, A., De Brito, S. & Frick, P., Feb 2024, In: Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 28, 2, p. 159-171 13 p.

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  • Association between childhood maltreatment and callous-unemotional traits in youth: a meta-analysis

    Todorov, J., Devine, R. T. & De Brito, S., 19 Jan 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews. 146, 16 p., 105049.

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  • Conduct disorder

    Fairchild, G., Hawes, D., Frick, P., Copeland, W., Odgers, C., Franke, B., Freitag, C. & De Brito, S., 1 Dec 2019, In: Nature Reviews Disease Primers. 5, 1, 43 .

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    41 Citations (Scopus)
  • Conduct disorder in adolescent females: current state of research and study design of the FemNAT-CD consortium

    Freitag, C. M., Konrad, K., Stadler, C., De Brito, S. A., Popma, A., Herpertz, S. C., Herpertz-Dahlmann, B., Neumann, I., Kieser, M., Chiocchetti, A. G., Schwenck, C. & Fairchild, G., 1 Sept 2018, In: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 27, 9, p. 1077-1093 17 p.

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    23 Citations (Scopus)
  • ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries

    for the ENIGMA Consortium, van der Merwe, C., Van Someren, E., van Wingen, G., Völzke, H., Walton, E., Wang, L., Winkler, A., Wittfeld, K., Wright, M. J., Yun, J-Y., Zhang, G., Zhang-James, Y., Adhikari, B., Agartz, I., Aghajani, M., Aleman, A., Althof, R. R., Altmann, A., Andreassen, O., & 69 othersBaron, D., Bartnik-Olson, B., Bas-Hoogendam, J. M., Baskin-Sommers, A. R., Bearden, C. E., Berner, L., Boedhoe, P., Brouwer, R., Buitelaar, J. K., Caeyenberghs, K., Cecil, C. A. M., Cohen, R., Cole, J., Conrod, P., Zwarte, S., Denis, E., Desriviere, S., Dima, D., Ehrlich, S., Esopenko, C., Fairchild, G., Fisher, S. E., Fouche, J-P., Franks, C., Frangou, S., Franke, B., Garavan, H. P., Glahn, D. C., Groenewold, N. A., Gurholt, T. P., Gutman, B. A., Hahn, T., Harding, I. H., Hernaus, D., Hibar, D. P., Hillary, F. G., Hoogman, M., Hulshoff Pol, H. E., Jalbrzikowski, M., Karkashadze, G. A., Klapwijk, E. T., Knickmeyer, R. C., Kochunov, P., Koerte, I. K. Q., Kong, X-Z., Liew, S-L., Lin, A. P., Logue, M. W., Luders, E., Macciardi, F., Mackey, S., Mayer, A. R., McDonald, C., McMahon, A. B., Medland, S. E., Modinos, G., Morey, R. A., Mueller, S. C., Mukherjee, P., Namazova-Baranova, L., Nir, T. M., Olsen, A., Paschou, P., Pine, D. S., Pizzagalli, F., Rentería, M. E., Rohrer, J. D., Sämann, P. G. & Schmaal, L., 20 Mar 2020, In: Translational Psychiatry. 10, 1, 28 p., 100.

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  • Psychopathy

    De Brito, S. A., Forth, A. E., Baskin-Sommers, A. R., Brazil, I. A., Kimonis, E. R., Pardini, D., Frick, P. J., Blair, R. J. R. & Viding, E., 8 Jul 2021, In: Nature Reviews Disease Primers. 7, 1, p. 49 49.

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