Brain SPECT findings and aggressiveness

Annals of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 129-137

  Amen, Daniel G ^a   Stubblefield, Matthew ^a   Carmichael, Blake ^a   Thisted, Ronald ^b  

^a Amen Clinic for Behavioral Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggressiveness; Brain SPECT studies; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; AGGRESSIVENESS; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029849176     PISSN: 10401237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10401239609147750     Document Type: Article

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