Reduced prefrontal connectivity in psychopathy

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 48, 2011, Pages 17348-17357

  Motzkin, Julian C ^a   Newman, Joseph P ^b   Kiehl, Kent A ^c,d   Koenigs, Michael ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c MIND RESEARCH NETWORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROBIOLOGY; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CONNECTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISONER; PSYCHOPATHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BRAIN MAPPING; CRIMINALS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROIMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 82555173928     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4215-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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