Brain abnormalities in murderers indicated by positron emission tomography

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 495-508

  Raine, Adrian ^a   Buchsbaum, Monte ^b   LaCasse, Lori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Angular gyms; Corpus callosum; Hippocampus; Murder; Occipital; Parietal; Positron emission tomography; Prefrontal; Thalamus; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GUILT; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OFFENDER; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MALE; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0030845209     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(96)00362-9     Document Type: Article

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