Neuroaffective processing in criminal psychopaths: Brain event-related potentials reveal task-specific anomalies

Journal of Personality Disorders

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 322-339

  Howard, Rick ^a   McCullagh, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ALCOHOLISM; ALERTNESS; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL TASK; PRISON; PRISONER; PSYCHOPATHY; SINGAPORE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; AROUSAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRISONERS; REACTION TIME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINGAPORE;

EID: 34250309993     PISSN: 0885579X     EISSN: 0885579X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/pedi.2007.21.3.322     Document Type: Article

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