'Munchausen's syndrome by proxy' or a 'miscarriage of justice'? An initial application of functional neuroimaging to the question of guilt versus innocence

European Psychiatry

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 309-314

  Spence, Sean A ^a   Kaylor Hughes, Catherine J ^a   Brook, Martin L ^a   Lankappa, Sudheer T ^a   Wilkinson, Iain D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Fabricated or induced illness; Factitious or induced illness; fMRI; Lies; Miscarriage of justice; Munchausen syndrome by proxy; Response time; Truth; Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; GABAPENTIN; VENLAFAXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GUILT; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME BY PROXY; NEURALGIA; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; EXPERT TESTIMONY; FEMALE; GUILT; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIE DETECTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME BY PROXY; OXYGEN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 46649092942     PISSN: 09249338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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