Brain response to visual sexual stimuli in homosexual pedophiles

Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-33

  Schiffer, Boris ^a   Krueger, Tillmann ^b   Paul, Thomas ^a   De Greiff, Armin ^a   Forsting, Michael ^a   Leygraf, Norbert ^a   Schedlowski, Manfred ^b   Gizewski, Elke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging, functional; Pedophilia; Sexual behaviour

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PEDOPHILIA; PHOTOGRAPHY; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 39149100642     PISSN: 11804882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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