Investigating the neural correlates of psychopathy: A critical review

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 792-799

  Koenigs, M ^a   Baskin Sommers, A ^a   Zeier, J ^a   Newman, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPATHY; REVIEW; REWARD; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL GYRUS; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79960833893     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: 14765578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mp.2010.124     Document Type: Review

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