Multimodal neuroimaging measures and intelligence influence pedophile child sexual offense behavior

Pedophilia is a heterogeneous disorder for which the neurobiological correlates are not well established. In particular, there are no biological markers identifying individuals with high risk to commit child sexual offense (CSO). Pedophiles with CSO (P+CSO; N = 73), pedophiles without CSO (P-CSO; N = 77), and non-pedophilic controls (NPC; N = 133) were assessed using multimodal structural neuroimaging measures including: cortical thickness (CT), surface area (SA), and white matter fractional anisotropy (FA), as well as full scale IQ (FSIQ) performance.

Source: European Neuropsychopharmacology - June 4, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tristram A. Lett, Sebastian Mohnke, Till Amelung, Eva J. Brandl, Kolja Schiltz, Alexander Pohl, Hannah Gerwinn, Christian K ärgel, Claudia Massau, Gilian Tenbergen, Matthias Wittfoth, Jonas Kneer, Klaus M. Beier, Martin Walter, Jorge Ponseti, Tillmann H. Source Type: research