Structural brain abnormalities in the frontostriatal system and cerebellum in pedophilia

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 753-762

  Schiffer, Boris ^a   Peschel, Thomas ^b   Paul, Thomas ^a   Gizewski, Elke ^a   Forsting, Michael ^a   Leygraf, Norbert ^a   Schedlowski, Manfred ^c   Krueger, Tillmann H C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Mri; Pedophilia; Sexual deviance; Sexual orientation; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BRAIN DISEASE; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; ORBITAL CORTEX; PEDOPHILIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; STRIATE CORTEX;

EID: 34247530423     PISSN: 00223956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2006.06.003     Document Type: Article

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