Repetitive and Non-repetitive Violent Offending Behaviour in Male Patients in a Maximum Security Mental Hospital - clinical and neuroimaging findings

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 150-160

  Wong, Michael ^a,b,c   Fenwick, Peter ^a   Fenton, George ^d   Lumsden, John ^e   Maisey, Michael ^f   Stevens, John ^g  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^c FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^d NINEWELLS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e BROADMOOR HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^g ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENGLAND; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRISONERS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0031112906     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002580249703700211     Document Type: Article

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