Psychopathy as a disorder of the moral brain: Fronto-temporo-limbic grey matter reductions demonstrated by voxel-based morphometry

NeuroImage

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1202-1213

  de Oliveira Souza, Ricardo ^a,b   Hare, Robert D ^c   Bramati, Ivanei E ^a   Garrido, Griselda J ^d   Azevedo Ignácio, Fátima ^e   Tovar Moll, Fernanda ^a   Moll, Jorge ^a  

^a LABS D'Or Hospital Network   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITÁRIO GAFFRÉE E GUINLE   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d HOSPITAL ISRAELITA ALBERT EINSTEIN   (Brazil)

^e Institut Philippe Pinel de Montreal   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antisocial behavior; Brain morphometry; Community psychiatric patients; Limbic; Moral; Orbitofrontal; Prefrontal cortex; Psychopathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MORALITY; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPATHY; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MORALS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCUPATIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 40849111239     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.12.054     Document Type: Article

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