CHSU Discovery

Background:
Conduct disorder (CD) refers to a collection of adolescent behavioral and emotional disorders that present with a six-month history of socially unacceptable mannerisms such as hostility, aggression, and violation of established rules. Total grey matter volume (GMV) is lower in patients with CD, and abnormal changes in specific areas for socioemotional stimulus processing were found. Psychiatric diagnoses of various behavioral disorders have been increasingly supplemented with both functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to analyze and measure architectural changes within the brain; therefore, MRI has the potential to detect markers for CD diagnosis. This systematic review demonstrates how CD can be linked to radiographic imaging of grey matter regions involved in socioemotional stimulus processing found in female and male adolescents.