The neural bases of normal and deviant moral cognition and behavior

Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 261-270

  De Oliveira Souza, Ricardo ^a,b   Moll, Jorge ^a  

^a D OR INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IDOR   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITÁRIO GAFFRÉE E GUINLE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; BORDERLINE STATE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMAN; MESENCEPHALON; MORALITY; NARCISSISM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NOTE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPATHY; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOPATHY; TAXONOMY;

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; COGNITION; CONSCIENCE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MORAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS;

EID: 77957367447     PISSN: 08993459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RMR.0b013e3181f22f69     Document Type: Note

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