Disturbed prefrontal and temporal brain function during emotion and cognition interaction in criminal psychopathy

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 131-150

  Müller, Jürgen L ^a   Sommer, Monika ^b   Döhnel, Katrin ^b   Weber, Tatjana ^c   Schmidt Wilcke, Tobias ^b   Hajak, Göran ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c Clinic of Forensic Psychiatry   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; OFFENDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOPATHY; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; EMOTIONS; GERMANY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 42249110724     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: 10990798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bsl.796     Document Type: Review

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