• DOI:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.02.008
Corpus ID: 3350912

Functional brain correlates of heterosexual paedophilia

@article{Schiffer2008FunctionalBC,
  title={Functional brain correlates of heterosexual paedophilia},
  author={B. Schiffer and T. Paul and E. Gizewski and M. Forsting and N. Leygraf and M. Schedlowski and T. Kruger},
  journal={NeuroImage},
  year={2008},
  volume={41},
  pages={80-91}
}

• B. Schiffer, T. Paul, +4 authors T. Kruger
• Published 2008
• Medicine, Computer Science, Psychology
• NeuroImage

Although the neuronal mechanisms underlying normal sexual motivation and function have recently been examined, the alterations in brain function in deviant sexual behaviours such as paedophilia are largely unknown. The objective of this study was to identify paedophilia-specific functional networks implicated in sexual arousal. Therefore a consecutive sample of eight paedophile forensic inpatients, exclusively attracted to females, and 12 healthy age-matched heterosexual control participants… Expand