Prefrontal brain asymmetry and aggression in imprisoned violent offenders

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 515, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 191-195

  Keune, Philipp M ^a   van der Heiden, Linda ^a,b   Várkuti, Bálint ^a   Konicar, Lilian ^a   Veit, Ralf ^a   Birbaumer, Niels ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

^c SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aggression; Alpha asymmetry; Approach withdrawal; Beta asymmetry; EEG

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANGER; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OFFENDER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISONER; VERBAL HOSTILITY; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; CRIMINALS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRISONERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84859775970     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.03.058     Document Type: Article

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