The neurobiology of evil: Psychiatric perspectives on perpetrators

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 5, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 303-315

  Stein, D J ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cortico striatal; Ethnicity; Evil; Limbic; Perpetrators; Sadism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORPUS STRIATUM; CRIME; ETHNOLOGY; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; PSYCHOBIOLOGY; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0033761594     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713667458     Document Type: Article

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