Assessment of pedophilia using hemodynamic brain response to sexual stimuli

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 187-194

  Ponseti, Jorge ^a   Granert, Oliver ^a   Jansen, Olav ^a   Wolff, Stephan ^a   Beier, Klaus ^b   Neutze, Janina ^b   Deuschl, Günther ^a   Mehdorn, Hubertus ^a   Siebner, Hartwig ^a,c   Bosinski, Hartmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GERMANY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PEDOPHILIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUAL ORIENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDOPHILIA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856746716     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.130     Document Type: Article

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