Neuroimaging in pedophilia

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Wiebking, Christine ^a   Northoff, Georg ^b  

^a Clinical Epidemiology Program   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

FMRI; Neurofeedback; Neuroimaging; Paraphilia; Pedophilia; Psychiatry; Real time FMRI; Sexual disorders

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDOPHILIA; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

BRAIN; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEDOPHILIA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84880139651     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-013-0351-x     Document Type: Article

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