Brain volumes differ between diagnostic groups of violent criminal offenders

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 263, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 593-606

  Bertsch, Katja ^a   Grothe, Michel ^b   Prehn, Kristin ^c   Vohs, Knut ^d   Berger, Christoph ^b   Hauenstein, Karlheinz ^b   Keiper, Peter ^b   Domes, Gregor ^e   Teipel, Stefan ^b,f   Herpertz, Sabine C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^f GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggression; Criminality; Empathy; Impulsivity; Prison inmates; Structural magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OFFENDER; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPATHY; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CRIMINALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84885179622     PISSN: 09401334     EISSN: 14338491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00406-013-0391-6     Document Type: Article

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