Theme 3: Plasticity and Memory

Systems Approach to Maladaptive Behaviour & Antisociality (SAMBA)

Our main interest is studying (mal)adaptive behavior and poor decision-making, and their links to psychopathic/antisocial tendencies in community and offender samples. To achieve this, we integrate multiple levels of description by combining behavioral methods, electrophysiology, s/fMRI, and various types of latent variable modeling. Some of our current projects and collaborations are focused on:

how antisocial personality constructs are related to cognitive control, affective processing and social decision-making
how pain distorts decision-making as a function of psychopathic traits
the impact of mind-body interventions on social functioning
how hostility biases are acquired
ethical and philosophical examinations of the use of neuroscientific methods to tackle clinical challenges in forensic settings

Contact
Name:	Inti Brazil
Telephone:	024-3611387
Email:	i.brazil@donders.ru.nl
Visiting address:	Donders Centre for Cognition Thomas van Aquinostraat 4 6525 GD Nijmegen The Netherlands
Postal address:	Donders Centre for Cognition P.O. Box 9104 6500 HE Nijmegen The Netherlands

Key grants and prizes

Templeton World Charity Foundation (Co-PI, €446.000): “From the heart: Testing the efficacy of heart-centered contemplation”.

2019 DCC grant (PI, €205.000): “Pain experience, psychopathic traits and exploitative decision-making”.

2015 NWO VENI grant (PI, €250.000): “Modelling decision-making in violent antisocial offenders”.

2011 WODC grant (Co-PI, €75.000). “The role of the Freeze-Fight-Flight system in violent terrorist attacks”.

2009 NWO Mosaic Grant (PI, €194.000): “Neurophysiological correlates of action monitoring in violent psychopathic offenders”.

Key awards

2022 Jevon S. Newman Early Career Contribution Award. Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy

2015 Science Pearl of the Dutch Caribbean award for outstanding academic achievements. OCAN Foundation

2014 Teaching Excellence Award. Health Psychology master program, Radboud University.

2014 Dissertation award. Dutch Society for Neuropsychology.

2011 Koningsheide award for innovative scientific contribution to Dutch forensic psychiatry. Koningsheide Foundation

Key publications

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. (2021). Psychopathy. Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 7, 54.

Jurjako, M., Malatesti, L., Brazil, I.A. (2020). Biocognitive classification of antisocial individuals without explanatory reductionism. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15, 957-972.

Brazil, I. A., van Dongen, J. D. M., Maes, J. H. R., Mars, R. B.* & Baskin-Sommers, A. R.* (2018). Classification and treatment of antisocial individuals: From behavior to biocognition. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 91, 259-277.

Kreplin, U.*, Farias, M.*, Brazil, I.A. (2018). The limited prosocial effects of meditation: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Scientific Reports, 8, 2403. *shared first authors

Hoppenbrouwers, S. S., Bulten, B. H., Brazil, I. A. (2016). Psychological Bulletin, 142, 573-60.

Brazil, I. A., De Bruijn, E. R. A., Bulten, B. H., Von Borries, A. K. L., Van Lankveld, J. J. D. M., Buitelaar, J. K., & Verkes, R. J. (2009). Early and late components of error monitoring in violent offenders with psychopathy. Biological Psychiatry, 65(2), 137–143.

Links

Website Inti Brazil

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Research Group
Systems Approach to Maladaptive Behaviour & Antisociality (SAMBA)

Principal Investigator
Dr. Inti Brazil

Group members

UD
Josi Driessen

PhD students

Amy Abelmann
Dimana Atanassova
Michelle Jansen
Pieter Molleman
Faye Ng
Inge Scheper
Micha van de Vorst