Violence in schizophrenic patients: The role of positive psychotic symptoms and frontal lobe impairment

American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-50

  Krakowski, Menahem ^a,b   Czobor, Pal ^c   Libiger, Jan ^c   Kunz, Michal ^c   Papezova, Hana ^c   Parker, B B ^c   Schmader, Lorraine ^c   Abad, Theresa ^d  

^a NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Psychiatric Research   (United States)

^d MANHATTAN PSYCHIATRIC CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASSAULT; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0030969033     PISSN: 01631942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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