Neurobiological disturbances in callous-unemotional youths

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 165, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 668-670

  Dolan, Mairead ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMORBIDITY; CONDUCT DISORDER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR; EDITORIAL; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; JUVENILE; NEUROBIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPATHY; SOCIALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALA; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; AROUSAL; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 44949154715     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2008.08030393     Document Type: Editorial

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