Violence in schizophrenia versus limbic psychotic trigger reaction: Prefrontal aspects of volitional action

Aggression and Violent Behavior

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 503-521

  Pontius, Anneliese A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Frankfurt/M   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Limbic partial seizures; Limbic psychotic trigger reaction; Memory; Prefrontal cortex; Schizophrenia; Seizure kindling; Temporal lobe epilepsy; Violence limbic system; Voluntariness of action

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DELUSION; DRIVE; HUMAN; INFANTICIDE; JUVENILE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; THINKING; VIOLENCE; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

EID: 2942562258     PISSN: 13591789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-1789(03)00046-6     Document Type: Article

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