Violent crime in psychiatric patients: Relationship to frontal lobe impairment

American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 53-59

  Krakowski, Menahem ^a,b   Czobor, Pal ^a   Carpenter, Mary D ^a   Nolan, Karen ^a   Libiger, Jan ^a   Kunz, Michal ^a   Papezova, Hana ^a   Parker, B B ^a   Schmader, Lorraine ^a   Abad, Theresa ^c  

^a NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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

^c MANHATTAN PSYCHIATRIC CENTER   (United States)

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