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Published in: Current Psychiatry Reports 4/2013

01-04-2013 | Sexual Disorders (JP Fedoroff, Section Editor)

Neuroimaging in Pedophilia

Authors: Christine Wiebking, Georg Northoff

Published in: Current Psychiatry Reports | Issue 4/2013

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Abstract

Paraphilia is a set of disorders characterized by abnormal sexual desires. Perhaps most discussed amongst them, pedophilia is a complex interaction of disturbances of the emotional, cognitive and sexual experience. Using new imaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, neural correlates of emotional, sexual and cognitive abnormalities and interactions have been investigated. As described on the basis of current research, altered patterns of brain activity, especially in the frontal areas of the brain, are seen in pedophilia. Building on these results, the analysis of neural correlates of impaired psychological functions opens the opportunity to further explore sexual deviances, which may contribute ultimately to the development of tools for risk assessment, classification methods and new therapeutic approaches.
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Metadata
Title
Neuroimaging in Pedophilia
Authors
Christine Wiebking
Georg Northoff
Publication date
01-04-2013
Publisher
Current Science Inc.
Published in
Current Psychiatry Reports / Issue 4/2013
Print ISSN: 1523-3812
Electronic ISSN: 1535-1645
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-013-0351-x

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