Implications of fMRI and genetics for the law and the routine practice of forensic psychiatry

Neurocase

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-14

  Dressing, Harald ^a   Sartorius, Alexander ^a   Meyer Lindenberg, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggression; Antisocial personality disorder; Functional imaging; Monoamine oxidase A; Sexual offender

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING) ISOENZYME A;

AGGRESSION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DELINQUENCY; FORENSIC GENETICS; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OFFENDER; PEDOPHILIA; PERSONALITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOPATHY; PUNISHMENT; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL CRIME; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VIOLENCE;

BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CRIMINAL LAW; CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MONOAMINE OXIDASE; NEUROSCIENCES;

EID: 47149086655     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790801992800     Document Type: Review

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