Neuroimaging in psychopathy

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 856-865

  Pridmore, Saxby ^a   Chambers, Amber ^b   McArthur, Milford ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b ROYAL HOBART HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antisocial personality disorder; Dissocial personality disorder; Imaging; Neuroimaging; Psychopathy

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN PERFUSION; CHILDHOOD; COGNITION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GRAY MATTER; HEREDITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOPATHY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOCIAL CLASS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VIOLENCE; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; RADIOGRAPHY;

BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33644877875     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1614.2005.01679.x     Document Type: Review

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