Six adoptees who murdered: Neuropsychiatric vulnerabilities and characteristics of biological and adoptive parents

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 390-397

  Lewis, D O ^a   Yeager, C A ^a   Gidlow, B ^a   Lewis, M ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOPTION; ADULT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CHILD ABUSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MALE; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PARENT; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SCHIZOIDISM; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOPTION; ADULT; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PARENTS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0035660730     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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