White Matter Deficits in Psychopathic Offenders and Correlation with Factor Structure

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Hoppenbrouwers, Sylco S ^a,b   Nazeri, Arash ^c   de Jesus, Danilo R ^c   Stirpe, Tania ^d   Felsky, Daniel ^c   Schutter, Dennis J L G ^a   Daskalakis, Zafiris J ^c   Voineskos, Aristotle N ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Forensic Psychiatric Centre Oldenkotte   (Netherlands)

^c CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^d Correctional Services of Canada ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; OFFENDER; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOPATHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER LESION; ANISOTROPY; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHECKLIST; PATHOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHECKLIST; CRIMINALS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84882705600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072375     Document Type: Article

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