Pedophilia: Neuropsychological evidence encouraging a brain network perspective

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 528-531

  Tost, Heike ^a   Vollmert, Christian ^b   Brassen, Stefanie ^b   Schmitt, Andrea ^a   Dressing, Harald ^a   Braus, Dieter F ^b  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORPUS STRIATUM; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDOPHILIA; PHENOMENOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PILOT STUDY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 3342996865     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.03.004     Document Type: Article

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