Functional brain correlates of heterosexual paedophilia

@article{Schiffer2008FunctionalBC,
  title={Functional brain correlates of heterosexual paedophilia},
  author={Boris Schiffer and Thomas Paul and Elke Ruth Gizewski and Michael Forsting and Norbert Leygraf and Manfred Schedlowski and Tillmann H. C. Kruger},
  journal={NeuroImage},
  year={2008},
  volume={41},
  pages={80-91}
}
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