Pedophilia is Linked to Reduced Activation in Hypothalamus and Lateral Prefrontal Cortex During Visual Erotic Stimulation

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 698-701

  Walter, Martin ^a   Witzel, Joachim ^b   Wiebking, Christine ^a   Gubka, Udo ^b   Rotte, Michael ^a   Schiltz, Kolja ^a   Bermpohl, Felix ^c   Tempelmann, Claus ^a   Bogerts, Bernhard ^a   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^a   Northoff, Georg ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b State Hospital for Forensic Psychiatry of Saxonia Anhaltina   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; fMRI; hypothalamus; neural mechanism; pedophilia; periaqueductal gray

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; EROTISM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; PEDOPHILIA; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL AROUSAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CONTROL GROUPS; EMOTIONS; EROTICA; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIBIDO; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PEDOPHILIA; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548176110     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2006.10.018     Document Type: Article

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