Prefrontal volumes in habitually violent subjects with antisocial personality disorder and type 2 alcoholism

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 95-102

  Laakso, Mikko P ^a   Gunning Dixon, Faith ^b   Vaurio, Olli ^c   Repo Tiihonen, Eila ^c   Soininen, Hilkka ^a   Tiihonen, Jari ^a,c,d  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Niuvanniemen sairaala   (Finland)

^d HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Antisocial personality; Homicide; Imaging; MRI; Prefrontal; Sociopathy; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ALCOHOLISM; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDUCATION; GENDER; HABIT; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPATHY; PSYCHOSIS; TIME; VIOLENCE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BRAIN MAPPING; COMORBIDITY; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRISONERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 0037097224     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4927(02)00005-7     Document Type: Article

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