Abnormalities in emotion processing within cortical and subcortical regions in criminal psychopaths: Evidence from a functional magnetic resonance imaging study using pictures with emotional content

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 152-162

  Müller, Jürgen L ^a   Sommer, Monika ^a   Wagner, Verena ^a   Lange, Kirsten ^a   Taschler, Heidrun ^a   Röder, Christian H ^b   Schuierer, Gerhardt ^c   Klein, Helmfried E ^a   Hajak, Göran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arousal; Emotion; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; International Affective Picture System; Psychopathy; Valence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OFFENDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPATHY; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; EMOTIONS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0038784877     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(02)01749-3     Document Type: Article

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